Jannik Sinner and more: Carlos Alcaraz wants to dispel the Italy taboo

The Spaniard will have to beat two Italian tennis players if he wants to confirm himself as champion in Croatia.

Now in his seventh semifinal of the season, in a 2022 that has already given him the No. 5 position in the ATP rankings, Carlos Alcaraz faces the Italian stumbling block on his way to Umag. In fact, the Murcia phenom is the only non-Italian left in the main draw of the Croatian tournament.

In his semifinal match, the Iberian will face the surprising Giulio Zeppieri, who defeated Zapata Miralles – another Spaniard – in the quarterfinal played on Friday. Should Rafa Nadal’s heir-designate prevail, in the final here is the winner between Jannik Sinner and Franco Agamenone, the Italian-Argentinean who is surprising everyone.

The tennis chronicles of the last month tell of an Alcaraz who lost precisely at the hands of Italian tennis players his last two matches on the circuit. First the fall at Wimbledon, in the quarterfinals, against the Alto Adige native. Then, last week, the defeat in the final in Hamburg against Lorenzo Musetti, in his first triumph in an ATP tournament in the 500 category. The Spaniard has every intention of dispelling the Italian taboo that has materialized in recent times, but the Italian troop seems fierce…