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The draw gave its verdict on the fourth Masters 1000 of the year and second on slow courts. Madrid, with its charm, welcomes the best in the world. And what if it will happen this time, with the return of Rafael Nadal, the local idol, to the circuit after another injury.
The left-hander could face the new figure, Carlos Alcaraz, in the quarterfinals and against Novak Djokovic in the semifinal, for the upper half of the key. Nadal, with the record for titles in Madrid, with five, the last one in 2017, this year reached the historic record of 21 Grand Slams, beating the Swiss Roger Federer and Djokovic, and just lost a match in the Indian Wells final, first M1000 of the season, suffering a physical problem in his duel against the American Taylor Fritz.
The historic king of clay, with 13 Roland Garros cups, will debut in the second round at the Caja Mágica against the ascending Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic or the irregular Kazakh Alexander Bublik and then the third seed would have another Spaniard, Pablo Carreño Busta (16 No. seed) or Russia’s Aslan Karatsev.
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