{"id":191758,"date":"2025-06-17T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191758\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:20:10","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-has-new-queens-club-first-round-opponent-reacts-to-news-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191758\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has new Queen\u2019s Club first-round opponent, reacts to news | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Carlos Alcaraz<br \/>\n    Alcaraz has new Queen\u2019s Club first-round opponent, reacts to news<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard will face lucky loser Walton in R1 after Davidovich Fokina withdrew<\/p>\n<p>June 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alcaraz-london-2025-tuesday.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz prepares for his opener in west London with coach Samuel Lopez watching on.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ADRIAN DENNIS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Carlos Alcaraz prepares for his opener in west London with coach Samuel Lopez watching on.<br \/>\n        By Jerome Coombe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/carlos-alcaraz\/a0e2\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will face Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/adam-walton\/w09e\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Walton<\/a> in the first round at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/london\/311\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HSBC Championships<\/a> on Tuesday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alejandro-davidovich-fokina\/dh50\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> withdrew due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, Alcaraz had just finished his 30-minute practice session with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jordan-thompson\/tc61\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Thompson<\/a> at noon when he found out the news. The Spaniard looked over at Thompson \u2014 Walton\u2019s countryman \u2014 to give a nod of appreciation and a wry smile before packing up and playing a spot of tennis golf with his team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750166410_65_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina got married on Saturday in Marbella, Spain, before travelling to London to compete at the ATP 500 event. Alcaraz&#8217;s practise partner Thompson is also his potential second-round opponent: The Australian faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jaume-munar\/mu94\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaume Munar<\/a> in his opener.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz owns a 6-1 record at Queen\u2019s Club, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, having triumphed on his debut in 2023 before falling to home favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jack-draper\/d0co\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Draper<\/a> in the second round last year. Lucky loser Walton, who is making his main-draw debut, is yet to face Alcaraz in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Alcaraz has new Queen\u2019s Club first-round opponent, reacts to news Spaniard will face lucky loser Walton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698913383010388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191758","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=191758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}