At hours of your debut in the Masters 1000 de Miamithis Wednesday spoke Carlos Alcaraz Before the media and their statements did not go unnoticed. He assured that he does not support the strong complaint of the Association of Professional Tennis Players (PTPA) co -founded by Novak Djokovic and Vasek postpyrose against ATP, WTA, ITF and ITIA (International Tennis Integrity Agency).
“Honestly, I was surprised because nobody told me anything about it. I just saw it yesterday on social networks,” He said number three in the world at the press conference prior to his presentation in the tournament he won in 2022. In addition, he expressed his surprise to see how the PTPA quotes without his consent a statement he had made in a previous press conference and in which he criticized the calendar of the ATP circuit: “I saw that there were statements in which they put something I said in conference, which I did not know.”
The denunciation of the PTPA, which was presented in courts of the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union and also signed by twelve tennis players, accuses the four rector organizations of tennis to operate as a “poster” in a “corrupt, illegal and abusive system” to “abuse, silence and systematically exploit players with the aim of obtaining personal benefits through monopolistic control.”
The complaint is strong and that is why Alcaraz sought to distance himself from it. “There are some things about that letter I agree with, there are others with which I don’t. But the main thing is that I do not support it “, The winner of four Grand Slams pointed out.
Another of those who expressed himself in this regard, in this case in an affirmative, was Nick Kyrgios, one of the signatories of the letter. “Pospisil, Djokovic, I … We all wanted to do something like that for the future of tennis. The players are not happy with the structures and everything that is happening,” said the Australian, who beat Mackenzie Mc Donald in his debut in Miami and achieved his first victory in 895 days.
Carlos Alcaraz will debut at the Miami Open in front of the Belgian David Goffinwhich defeated the Australian Aleksandar Vukic on Wednesday. Goffin, number 55 in the world, won Vukic, which occupies position 77, with 2-6, 6-4 and 6-2 in an hour and 43 minutes.
The Spanish and the Belgian faced twice and victories were distributed, but both precedents are far away, since they were in 2021 and 2022, when the Carlitos game had not evolved as it did in the later years.
Alcaraz is the second standard head in Miami, a tournament that conquered in 2022 and that meant the first 1000 masters of his career. On his side of the painting, Serbio Novak Djokovic, fifth of the world ranking and Sextuple Tournament champion, and the Russian Daniil Medvedev (8th), the winner of the tournament in 2023.