Atp Montecarlo: 5 blues in the draw, 8 top ten in the race

Jannik Sinner

• Fognini triumphs in Montecarlo

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09 April 2021 Five Italians are at the start in the main draw of the 'Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters', the second Masters 1000 of the season, with a prize pool of 2,082,960 euros, which takes place on the red clay of the Country Club of Montecarlo, in the Principality of Monaco.

The reigning champion

, n.18 ATP and 15th seeded, debuts against the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, n.46 in the ranking: between the 33 year old from Arma di Taggia and the 21 year old from Belgrade there are no precedents.

, n.23 ATP, in his first participation, must instead contend in the first round with the Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, n.47 of the ranking, never faced in his career: the 33-year-old Catalan on the land of the Principality was a finalist in 2017, blocked from compatriot Nadal.

The winner of this match will be the debut opponent of world number one Djokovic.

Even the opponent of

, n.34 ATP, protagonist at the 'Sardegna Open', drawn in the first round against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, n.40 in the ranking: the 29-year-old from Budapest is ahead 3-1 in the ranking. balance of the previous ones (he won the last three) and won both challenges on clay.

Whoever wins this challenge will find 'Sascha' Zverev in the second round.

Complicated debut also for

, fresh from the quarterfinals in the 'Sardegna Open': the 19-year-old from Carrara, n.90 in the ranking, on the draw thanks to a wild card, will make his debut against one of the hottest players of this first part of the season , the Russian Aslan Karatsev, # 28 ATP, who in this 2021 has a balance of 13 wins and 3 defeats and has already won a tournament, the ATP 500 in Dubai.

There are no precedents between the Tuscan Next Gen and the 27-year-old from Vladikavkaz.

The winner of this match will be Tsitsipas' debut opponent.

Instead,

enters the

race directly in the second round

: the 24-year-old Roman, 10 in the ranking and 8 in the seeding, awaits the winner of the match between the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina, 56 ATP, and the Australian Alex De Minaur, n.25 in the ranking.

In the race there are eight of the top ten in the ranking: the Austrian Dominic Thiem (# 4 ATP) and the Swiss Roger Federer (# 7 ATP) are missing.

Leading the seeding is Serbian Novak Djokovic, who scored in the 2013 and 2015 editions: the world number one precedes the Russian Daniil Medvedev (# 2 ATP), the Spaniard Rafael Nadal (# 3 ATP), record holder of successes in Monte-Carlo with 11 titles (2005-2012 and 2016-2018), the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (# 5 ATP), the German Alexander Zverev (# 6 ATP), the Russian Andrey Rublev (# 8 ATP) , the Argentine Diego Schwartzman (9 ATP) and the blue Matteo Berrettini.

The top eight seeds will enter the race directly in the second round.

The reigning champion is Fabio Fognini (# 18 ATP), winner of a historic 1000 trophy in the 2019 edition (last year the tournament was canceled due to the pandemic).