Alcaraz and Jódar avoid each other in Tokyo after the Laver Cup

Finished the Laver Cupit’s time to return to the circuit and Carlos Alcaraz and Rafa Jódar will do it this week in the Tokyo tournamentwhose draw was held on Monday morning.

As luck would have it, the two Spaniards ended up on different sides of the draw, so Faces could only be seen in a hypothetical final.

Alcaraz, first seed, will debut against the American Alex Michelsenand his rival in the second round would emerge from the duel between the Italian Matteo Arnaldi and the Japanese Rei Sakamoto.

Already in the quarterfinals, the Murcian They could be seen with Tommy Paul (7), Alejandro Tabilo or Denis Shapovalovwhile the one who emerges as a rival in the semifinals would be Taylor Fritz (3), with Casper Ruud (6), Lorenzo Musetti and Holger Rune on the lookout.

For its part, Jódar will debut against a player from the previous phaseto face in the second round the winner of the confrontation between Alejandro Davidovich and Matteo Berrettini.

Brandon Nakashima (5) in the quarterfinals and Frances Tiafoe (2) in the semifinals are the most serious threats for the Madrid native on his way to the long-awaited final against Alcaraz.

The stop in Tokyo will be the first of the Asian tour, in which both Alcaraz and Jódar They will also play the Shanghai Masters 1000 a week later.

After this part of the season, The Murcian will still have to play the Six Kings Slams in Saudi Arabiabefore the Masters 1000 in Paris, the ATP Finals, where he is already qualified, and the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna, while Jódar will go from Shanghai to Basel before passing through Paris, where he will finish his last chances of qualifying for the Masters tournament.