Count of Godó is preparing for version 72: Alcaraz will search for its third title and the championship will have three other tennis players | Tennis Sport
The 72nd edition of Godó Cup will be “very good, but what will come will be better.” This is understood by David Ferer, the championship director, “Saeed and Saeed”, for the competition to be held from April 12 to 20, at Real Teenis Barcelona. Although from now on, there will be a tennis player who is no longer able to jump to his paths, Rafael Nadal. He thought about paying him a honor this year, but he had a very narrow calendar. “From the person who will come, one of them will be implemented as he deserves,” said Ferrier on Monday, in Solmen.
However, the Catalan championship will have the participation of four players in the world in 2025: Stefanus Tsitsibas, André Rublev, Casper Road, the current champion, and Carlos Carraz. Tennis player Moresian, head of the main posters, will search for his third title in Barcelona, after last year he was low due to injury. “Injuries cannot be controlled. I did not talk to him, because he focuses on Miami.” Godó director, about El Palmar, who fell at the end of this week before Jacques Dripper in the semi -finals of Indian Wells: “He is enthusiastic about his presence in Barcelona and fortunately to have it.”
They will also be present at the Alex De Miñaur and Holger Rune competition, the current number 12 of the ATP classification, After falling into the Master’s final 1000 California against Jacques Drabber. The Spanish tennis player, Pablo Carreno, will also be part of the list of participants, being one of the four Barrie cards From the championship. David Ferrier announced two of them: Japanese, Ki Nishikori, a double champion of the Catalan competition in 2014 and 2015, and Swiss, Stan and Orinka, the Triple Grand Slams champion, who will compete again in Barcelona, after it was the semi -finals in 2006 and 2008 editions.
To be the Barcelona clay champion, both Alcaraz and the rest of the registered tennis players must face one of the developments that Godó will offer this season: Reducing the number of players in the final table. Now, the tournament will get one of 32, instead of 48. “As of the two, the top ten players can compete and this is a development of the tournament. Ferreer said fans can see the best players in the world every day.”
The first round of Godó number will be played on Monday 14 and Tuesday, April 15th. In this way, the first eight standard presidents for the first time will be one of these two days. On the other hand, the image of the previous stage will be expanded from 16 to 24 players, while the couple remains with 16 years. Regarding the rest of the innovations in Godó, it is expected to have the great tennis legend BJörn Borg during this, and the CEO of Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Xavier Pujol.
The Grand Slam Grand Slame Elevense will win 50 years of winning the 1975 championship and will receive the award outside the track: a new initiative that rewards personalities and related institutions for the competition. Likewise, the news has also been announced in the “inclusion of persons with disabilities”, where the tournament’s infrastructure will be adapted, so that everything can be traveled in a wheelchair. “
Only 2 % of tickets are available to the masses: “It will be held during the holy week, as well as the local population, but people abroad come here on vacation. Ferreer concluded that at the professional and athlete level, he did not harm us at all,” when only 26 days are missing to start the 72 edition of the Godó Cup.
