The clay court tour will have its first major stop in Montecarlo, with the Masters 1000 that starts from April 8 to 16, as one of the tournaments ATP of greater importance with a view to Roland Garros from the end of May, with Novak Djokovic established in the prestigious position of the world ranking and with an advantage of 380 points, against a Carlos Alcaraz who announced his absence from the tournament held in the principality of Monacofor having finished his activity in Miami with physical discomfort.
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The Serbian tennis player managed to regain first place in the world to begin his week 381 as the best in the world within the white sport and with a calendar that allows him to enter the change of season with a refreshment, to face the series of clay tournaments that will end In a second Grand Slam of the year between May and June.
The absence of the Murcian Alcaraz will not be the only one, since he also Rafael Nadal confirmed that because he is not considered physically fit yet, he will not be able to play in the Monte Carlo Country Club. The 36-year-old Spanish veteran indicated that he still feels far away from competing at the highest level, but he is undergoing a recovery process to return to competitions as soon as possible.
Winner in 11 editions, for only two of Novak Djokovicthe panorama places Stefanos Tsitsipas, current defending champion, as one of the players to watch after confirming his third place in the general classification of the Association of Professional Tennis Players.
Andrey Rublev, Daniil Medvedev, Casper Ruud, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Jannik Sinner, Holger Rune, Taylor Fritz y Alexander Zverev They are part of the stellar group that will make up the tournament in Monaco, which in addition to awarding 1,000 points to the winner, will have a financial bag of five million 779 thousand euros.
With 7,160 points at the top of the world ranking, Novak Djokovic He will not see pressure in this first tournament on the new surface of the international calendar, with Tsitsipas as his closest pursuer and a total of 5,770 units.
The fight in the classification will be between places three and five with Tsitsipas, Medvedev and Ruud with differences reduced to less than a thousand points, in a situation similar to what Rublev, Auger-Aliassime, Rune, Fritz and Sinner live with 400 or less point difference to complete the top 10.
In the background, the presence of tennis players such as Borna Coric, Lorenzo Musetti, Sebastian Korda, Matteo Berrettini or Alejandro Davidovich, who arrives as one of the last finalists of the previous edition, cannot be underestimated.
Last Monte-Carlo Champions
Stefanos Tsitsipas 2022
Stefanos Tsitsipas 2021
Fabio Fognini 2019
Rafael Nadal 2018
Rafael Nadal 2017
Rafael Nadal 2016
Novak Djokovic 2015
Seeds
1 Novak Djokovic
2 Stefanos Tsitsipas
3 Daniil Medvedev
4 Casper Ruud
5 Andrey Rublev
6 Holger Rune
7 Jannik Sinner
8 Taylor Fritz
9 Karen Khachanov
10 Hubert Hurkacz
11 Cameron Norrie
12 Frances Tiafoe
13 Alexander Zverev
14 Tommy Paul
15 Alex de Minaur
16 Borna Coric
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