Carlos Alcaraz surprisingly admitted he will \u201close the No 1 of the world\u201d in the near future given the amount of points that Jannik Sinner stands to make up.<\/p>\n
Heading into the clay swing, just 1,190 points separated the two top-ranked players, but it is advantageous Sinner who stands to gain as much as Alcaraz does to lose, given he did not participate in Monte-Carlo last year.<\/p>\n
That, combined with Alcaraz\u2019s 1,000 points to defend, means Sinner will overtake Alcaraz should he reach at least the semi-finals and the Spaniard fail to retain the trophy, but Alcaraz has admitted that losing the No 1 spot is a matter of when rather than if.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m going to lose the number one of the world,\u201d he said after his second round victory over Sebastian Baez<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to be in this tournament or in the next one.<\/p>\n \u201cI defend a bunch of points that are going to be really difficult to defend all.<\/p>\n \u201cEven if I defend them, Jannik is going to add some points in these tournaments and he doesn\u2019t have to defend any points in this tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I will try to play my best, and let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n After Monaco, Alcaraz has 330 points to defend from Barcelona, 1,000 from the Italian Open, and then the 2,000 of the French Open.<\/p>\n Sinner, meanwhile, lost 2,100 points during his doping ban last year, so will have his first points to defend in Rome. There he registered 650 for being the losing finalist to Alcaraz and then a further 1,300 for the same result in Paris.<\/p>\n Despite this, Alcaraz insisted he was not focusing on the battle for No 1 and wanted to use Monte-Carlo as preparation for the clay swing.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, the number one of the sport is not in my mind right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to feel the best way, or as good as I can on the clay court, and let\u2019s see how it\u2019s going to be on the clay swing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google<\/a> to your favourites list for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n The post \u2018I am going to lose No 1 of the world\u2019 \u2013 Carlos Alcaraz makes surprise admission<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz surprisingly admitted he will \u201close the No 1 of the world\u201d in the near future given the amount of points that Jannik Sinner stands to make up. Heading into the clay swing, just 1,190 points separated the two top-ranked players, but it is advantageous Sinner who stands to gain as much as Alcaraz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}