The season of brick dust, clay, or whatever you prefer to call it, kicks off with a bang this week Monte Carlo: the third is played Masters 1000 of the ATP year, in the first step of the journey that will close at Roland Garros in less than two months.
The defender is Stefanos Tsitsipas, who in the 2022 final beat the surprising Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina. The Greek was also champion in 2021, when he beat Andrei Rublev in the final. Rafael Nadal He has been the great ruler of Monte Carlo, with 11 titles between 2005 and 2018, but this year he will be absent again due to injury.
Carlos Alcaraz, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Pablo Carreño Busta and Denis Shapovalov are the other victims. important, while Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev and Casper Ruud complete the 4 favorites along with Tsitsipas.
Sports news presents all the matches and results of the tournament.
Monte Carlo 2023: Matches, fixtures and results for Saturday 8 April
First round of qualifiers
All times correspond to Argentina (+5 in Spain, -1 in the Eastern United States and -3 in Mexico). Sporting News presents the Spanish calendar. You can see the full schedule at this link.
| Game | about an hour. | Result |
|---|---|---|
| court 9 | ||
| Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) vs. Jan-Lennard Struff (FALE) | 6 o’clock | |
| Court 11 | ||
| Pedro Martinez (ESP) vs. Oscar Otte (FALE) | 6 o’clock | |
