In a year that began in recession for Spanish tennis, the Navy players have been showing their heads and giving joy for a few weeks, some of them for the first time at the highest level. This is the case of Alejandro Moro Cañas, who will compete for the first time in the main draw of an ATP tournament. The 23-year-old and 238th from Madrid surpassed the previous 250 in Munich (clay court) and this Monday (around 1:00 p.m., Tennis TV) he will face in the first round an illustrious in low hours, the champion of the US Open 2020 , Dominic Thiem.
Moro, who had fallen in three qualys to date (Madrid 2022, Mallorca 2023 and Marseille 2024), who beat the German Daniel Masur on Saturday (6-7 (5), 6-4 and 6-1 in 2h31), surpassed this Sunday against the Bosnian Nerman Fatic (29 years old and 200º) by 6-4 and 6-2 in 1h27 to earn a place among the participants in the BMW Open. The number one seed is the local Alexander Zverev, one of the four seeds exempt from the first round, along with the Dane Holger Rune, the American Taylor Fritz and the German Jan-Lennard Struff. Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime is also in the picture.
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This same week, he played in the Madrid Challenger and lost in his debut against the Chinese Jerry Shang. His best results this season were obtained in other Challengers, Oeiras and Tenerife 3, where he was a quarterfinalist. In his record he has three ITF M25 titles (Idanha-a-Nova 2019, Vic 2022 and Antalya 2022).
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2024-04-14 17:00:20
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