The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, number 5 in the ATP ranking and head of the tournament, and the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, eleventh racket in the world, can meet in the quarterfinals of the 69th edition of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Trofe Conde de Godó, after the main draw that took place this Saturday at the RCT Barcelona-1899.
Tsitsipas, who will play the semi-finals of Monte Carlo this Saturday against the German Alexander Zverev, will make his debut in the Godó against the winner of the first round duel between the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka and the Spaniard Pedro Martínez Portero.
For his part, Alcaraz, seeded fifth in the tournament, will make his debut on Wednesday against the winner of the match between Frenchman Benoit Paire and South Korean Soonwoo Kwon.
In the same part of the table, the Spaniard Roberto Bautista, seventh seed and eighteenth in the world ranking, could face in the quarter-final against the Briton Cameron Norrie, fourth seed and tenth racket in the world ranking.
In the lower part of the table, if the predictions come true, a quarter-final could take shape between the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, ninth in the ATP rankings and third seed Godó, and the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman, sixteenth racket in the world and sixth favorite. .
The other penultimate round could be contested by the tournament’s second seed and seventh in the world ranking, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, and the eighth seed and number 19 of the ATP, the Spaniard Pablo Carreño.
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