Rio de Janeiro, Feb 25 (EFE).- The organizers of the Rio de Janeiro Tennis Open trust that the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, number two in the world and who has been the main star of the event in the last three years, will renew his contract and will compete again in this Brazilian city in 2025.
“We have already started conversations to be able to extend the contract or renew it. On our part there is enormous interest,” said the general director of the only ATP 500 tournament in South America, Lui Carvalho, in a press conference.
The leader explained that the Valencian tennis player should take a while to respond to the proposal because the champion of the United States Open in 2022 and Wimbledon in 2023 will still wait a little to set up his calendar in 2025.
“But I think we have good chances of renewing despite the bad experience he had this year,” said Carvalho, recalling that the 20-year-old tennis player had to leave the current edition of the Rio Open on Tuesday a few minutes after starting his first match after spraining his right ankle.
Carvalho believes that emotional factors may weigh on Alcaraz’s decision whether to renew the contract he signed three years ago to guarantee his presence in the Brazilian tournament and which expired this year.
In addition to having been the champion in Rio in 2022 and a finalist in 2023, Alcaraz has always said he was grateful to the organizers of the Brazilian tournament because they extended him a special invitation in 2020, when he was still an unknown 17-year-old, to compete. the first ATP 500 tournament of his career.
“He has enormous affection for Brazil and enormous gratitude for having received an invitation that allowed him to play and win his first match in an ATP 500 in Rio and for his first title in an ATP 500,” he stated.
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“But if we don’t manage to renew with Alcaraz, we will have another one. We always manage to overcome the situation. We already had (Rafael) Nadal for three years and we have always worked with tennis players that the public wants to see. I am not worried or afraid. We are going to work for him to come back, but if we don’t get it we will have a plan B, a solution,” he said.
Carvalho took advantage of the press conference to celebrate the message that Andy Murray published on his social networks and in which he stated that South America deserves to organize an ATP Master 1,000, and said that Brazil is prepared to organize an event of that magnitude.
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The leader cited a new audience record in the tenth edition of the Rio Open as a demonstration of the growth of the event and said that the great excitement of the attendees and tennis players in open events such as those in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires does not compare to that of tournaments like Doha, Dubai or Los Cabos.
“We have that advantage (of public emotion) that I always used to attract players,” he said.
By: EFE
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2024-02-25 20:58:51
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