Shock announced at the time of the draw, the match between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will take place this Friday.
A final before the hour. With Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal and Novak Djokovic’s world number 3 position, there was a possibility that Carlos Alcaraz could face Novak Djokovic in the Roland-Garros semi-finals. Friday, June 9, the two men will come face to face for a place in the final of the French Open in a match that everyone is waiting for. On the one hand, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has impressed and rolled over everyone since the start of the fortnight and in particular Stefanos Tsitsipas, totally powerless against the Spaniard and swept away in three sets. On the other side, Novak Djokovic. The Serb, who is having a special season with his absence during the American tour and his early elimination in Rome against Rune, is gaining momentum as the rounds go by. He has only lost one set so far, it was in the quarter-final against Russian Karen Khachanov.
History is now to be written on the central of Roland-Garros and the very young world number 1 is aware of it and looks forward to the meeting. “Since the draw, everyone has been waiting for this match, to see the semi-final against Novak, myself too,” Alcaraz said. I really want to play this game. Since last year, I wanted to face Novak again. We will both play a very high level. As I said before, if you want to be better, you have to beat the best. I look forward to this game to fully enjoy it. For me, it’s incredible to write history, to play the semi-final against a player like Novak. It will be a great game for me. The game we played last year doesn’t matter much compared to this one. So it will be something else altogether. We’ll see what happens on Friday. I would like to think my youth comes first but this will be his 45th Grand Slam semi-final, it will be my second. I would say experience takes precedence over that. I’m not going to think about it too much.”
If the official programming has not yet fallen, it is difficult to see the organizers not putting this match in a night session from 8:15 p.m. this Friday, June 9.
If the match is scheduled for a night session, the match will be broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime channels. If the meeting is during the day, it will be on the antennas of France Télévisions.
