Will we have to get used to it? Probably, what happened for twenty years with the “monsters” Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer it gave us an altered perception of the difficulties of tennis. A complicated practice due to the thousand variables at play and the incessant succession of challenges. With the three mentioned, without forgetting the Scotsman too Andy Murraythe composition of the semi-finals of the most important tournaments always included them.
Are things changing? It is more complicated for the new generation of players to have such a constant performance for each tournament in which they take part and it is above all their physique that creaks. However, it gives a sensation that we are talking about athletes who are in their prime or at the beginning of their journey. What happened with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner is emblematic: the first forced to also skip the Rome tournament, after having given up Monte Carlo and Barcelona and practically only played the matches in Madrid on clay; the second conditioned by inflammation at the hip.
An exhausting tennis that is difficult to reconcile with a calendar that offers no breaks, despite the changes to the 1000 (spread over several days) giving tennis players the opportunity to have recovery days? The answer would seem to be affirmative and due to actual injuries or precautions in Madrid there was a series of withdrawals:
- Jakub Mensik
- Jannik Sinner
- Daniil Medvedev
- Jiri Lehecka
It’s in Rome? Alcaraz, as mentioned, will not be there and there is a big question mark on Sinner. The presence of Medvedev and Lehecka is also strongly doubted and the form of the world no. 1 is not known, Novak Djokovic, who had previously decided not to go to Madrid. For this reason, at the Foro Italico we could follow up on a trend highlighted in this part of the season, that is to reward those who, after the Sunshine Double, had not faced too many matches due to knockouts earlier than expected.
ATP ROMA 2024 SEEDS
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1. Novak Djokovic
2. Jannik Sinner (?)
3. Daniil Medvedev (?)
4. Alexander Zverev
5. Casper Ruud
6. Andrey Rublev
7. Stefanos Tsitsipas
8. Hubert Hurkacz
9. Grigor Dimitrov
10. Alex de Minaur
11. Holger Rune
12. Taylor Fritz.
13. Ben Shelton
14. Hugh Humbert
15. Tommy Paul
16. Alexander Bublik
17. Karen Khachanov
18. Sebastian Baez
19. Felix Auger-Aliassime
20. Adrian Mannarino
21. Francisco Cerundolo
22. Jiri Lehecka (?)
23. Nicolas Jarry
24. Frances Tiafoe
25. Tallon Griekspoor
26. Sebastian Korda
27. Tomas Etcheverry
28. Lorenzo Musetti
29. Cameron Norrie
30. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
31. Arthur Fils
32. Mariano Navone
Consider what happened in Monte Carlo with the Final between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruudrepeated in Barcelona, and then what happened in Madrid with the clash between the revenants Andrey Rublev and Felix Auger-Aliassime. So, at the Italian Internationals, will the winner be the one with the most fuel in their body or the one with the most technical resources? At this point the picture really opens up to many and players like Auger-Aliassime himself should not be underestimated at all, remembering his 2022.
