Spain will not be able to count on the great hope of the Davis Cup team, the tennis player called to cover Rafael Nadal, absent by injury in the finals of this tournament that have started on Thursday.
Carlos Alcaraz gave positive for Covid and will be low.
Once the news has been known, the Spanish team canceled the evening training and the players were recruited in their rooms after undergoing proof that discarded other cases.
“I was very excited to represent Spain in Madrid, with our hobby, but sometimes things do not come out as you want and you have to overcome. I find myself well, with weak symptoms and we will see how progress, a lot of encouragement to the whole team, I will be encouraging
Since television, “said Alcaraz in his Instagram.
Alcaraz, who is vaccinated, was going to dispute the individuals along with Pablo Carreño, number 1 of the group that Capitanite Sergi Bruguera, in the first tie of this Friday, against Ecuador, in Madrid Arena.
After the low Roberto Bautista, injured in the abdominal area last Tuesday, Bruguera must choose between Albert Ramos, the man chosen to relieve him, or Feliciano López, who in principle was destined to play only the double meeting with Marcel Granollers.
Winner of two titles this season, the United States Open Food player after leaving on his way to Stefanos Tsitsipas, and with three victories in front of Top 10 rivals in the season of his explosion, alcaraz, number 32 of the ranking, was ready for
Make your debut in the competition that projected Nadal’s career.
The RFET announced that Pedro Martínez is the election of Bruguera to replace the rise of alcaraz.
The Valencian, 24, will be incorporated into the team this same Thursday.
Martínez is the number 60 of the world and this year he disputed the first ATP end of him in the Kitzbühel tournament.
As a double he was a semifinalist at Roland Garros next to Pablo Andújar.
The misfortune pursues the Spanish team, which two years ago, on their way to the sixth title of the Davis Cup, and he had to face the Bautista’s decline, which had to be absent due to the death of his mother even though he could return and
Be coprotagonist in the final, and from Pablo Carreño, also beaten by an injury.
