{"id":116169,"date":"2025-05-20T04:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116169\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:43:09","slug":"when-carlos-alcaraz-plans-to-arrive-at-roland-garros-after-italian-open-final-victory-over-jannik-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116169\/","title":{"rendered":"When Carlos Alcaraz plans to arrive at Roland Garros after Italian Open final victory over Jannik Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz now has his sights set on the second Grand Slam of the year, as the Spaniard gets set to defend his Roland Garros title. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Alcaraz<\/a> is in fine form this clay season, with two Masters 1000 titles clinched on the dirt in April and May. <\/p>\n

The Spaniard won the Monte-Carlo Masters last month and emerged victorious in the Eternal City, where Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner<\/a> to win his first Italian Open<\/a> title.<\/p>\n

With his triumph over the Italian, Alcaraz became the fifth youngest player<\/a> in the Open Era to win ten or more ATP<\/a> titles on clay. <\/p>\n

Alcaraz is the reigning French Open<\/a> champion, having won the title in the 2024 final against Alexander Zverev<\/a>, and will look to be the first since Rafael Nadal<\/a> in 2020 to successfully defend the crown in Paris. <\/p>\n

\"2024Photo by Christian Liewig \u2013 Corbis\/Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz\u2019s plans for Roland Garros preparation ahead of title defence<\/p>\n

As reported by Spanish outlet MARCA<\/a>, Alcaraz and his team will travel to Paris on Wednesday, but the player won\u2019t have his first training session until Thursday. <\/p>\n

It will leave three days\u2019 rest for the Rome champion, after playing the final on Sunday. <\/p>\n

He will be present for the draw, in which he will be the second seed, after surpassing Zverev in the ATP rankings to become world number two. <\/p>\n

Zverev, who lost in the quarter-final of the Italian Open, is playing at the Hamburg Open, where he is looking to defend points having made the final last year. <\/p>\n

\"InternazionaliPhoto by Tullio Puglia\/Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz\u2019s route to his first Roland Garros title in 2024<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s 2024 Roland Garros title pursuit began with two comfortable victories over J.J. Wolf and Jesper De Jong in the first and second rounds, respectively. <\/p>\n

He then earned three consecutive straight-set wins over seeded players, with dominant performances against Sebastian Korda, Felix Auger-Aliassime, and Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the semi-final, he came up against world number one Sinner, who he was able to best in a five-set marathon. <\/p>\n

Finally, Alcaraz defeated Zverev in another five-set match to hold the trophy aloft on court Philippe Chatrier. <\/p>\n

The four-time Grand Slam champion is looking for his fifth career major in the French capital, and his 20th career title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz now has his sights set on the second Grand Slam of the year, as the Spaniard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,5066,15172,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-116169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-french-open","10":"tag-roland-garros","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}