PARIS.- The N.2 of the World and current champion, Carlos Alcaraz, will look for his pass to the round of Roland Garros, as well as the current champion IGA Swiatek and the N.1 of the world Aryna Sabalenka.
Alcaraz, who comfortably exceeded his first two games, despite having given up a set against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan, returns to the Philippe-Champatrier track to measure himself in the last turn of the day with the Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, 69º in Ránking ATP.
Alcaraz is a favorite to sign up for a fifth Grand Slam title after having conquered the 1000 Masters of Montecarlo and Rome. The Murcian has reached the second week in ten of his last eleven appearances in ‘large’ tournaments.
The last Argentine representative in the two individual paintings, Mariano Navone (97º), who will start the day on the Suzanne-LENGLEN track-the second by capacity-before the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (7th) will also look for the passage.
In the female category, the Belarusa Sabalenka will open the philippe-chapatrier curtain against Serbia Olga Danilovic (34th) and the Polish Swiatek (5th) will play after Navone’s game against Romanian Jacqueline Cristian (60th).
Munguía shows positive result to testosterone
The Mexican boxer Jaime Munguía tested positive for testosterone after his victory against the Frenchman Bruno Sureace in a fight of supermedian pesos in Riad earlier this month, the specialized media The Ring on his website published Thursday.
The control was carried out by the Vada, an independent organization that performs test in combat sports, and threw remains of testosterone in Munguía’s sample, explained The Ring.
The 28 -year -old Mexican fighter, who has a balance of 45 wins for just 2 losses, now has ten days to request the analysis of sample B. If it confirmed the positive, Munguía would be exposed to a suspension.
A representative of the Munguía team confirmed to the American media ESPN to have received a notification of the positive and that the analysis of sample B was to be requested.
Surace had surprised in December in December in Tijuana. In La Revancha, this month in Saudi Arabia, Munguía won by unanimous decision (116-112, 117-111, 117-111).
“I am surprised by the news. In boxing there is no place for cheats, this sport is already dangerous enough as it is,” Sureace told The Ring.
