Alcaraz opens 2023 season as top seed in Buenos Aires

World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz is finally set to make his 2023 season debut – on the red clay in Buenos Aires.

🎤 @carlosalcaraz 🇪🇸

I did see the #AO2023 final… @DjokerNole level was very, very high…

It was also difficult/complicated for me to see how Djokovic took away from me the 🎾🔝1⃣ but I knew that sooner or later this will happen.

Now my main goal is to take it back! 😉 pic.twitter.com/T0g76D7pHd

— TRAVEL&Sports (@travel__Sports) February 12, 2023

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The Spaniard missed the Australian swing due to a leg injury and an ab injury derailed the end of his 2022 campaign.

“It’ll be my first tournament since I picked up the injury in Paris,” the 19-year-old US Open champion said. “It’s been four months since then.

“But I always arrive thinking about winning and wanting to win, even though it won’t be easy after such a long time without competing.”

“I think I can improve everything in terms of my game, fitness and mentality. Little by little, my team will take those small steps to get even better.”

“Rafa, Roger and Djokovic, when they were young, they were so good, but as time has gone by, they’ve improved,” he added. This is the basis of his motivation from now on.

“I’m certain that I need to continue to improve,” the title favorite added. “Achieving my dream very quickly caught me by surprise, so to speak. Now I’m used to it, I have a goal, I know where I want to get to, what I want to be, and that is the most important thing.”

The seeds look like: 1 Carlos Alcaraz, 2 Cameron Norrie, 3 Lorenzo Musetti, 4 Diego Schwartzman, 5 Francisco Cerundolo, 6 Sebastian Baez, 7 Alex Molcan and 8 Albert Ramos Vinolas.