Jack Draper: British No 1 to open against Jenson Brooksby with top seed Carlos Alcaraz set for Queen’s Club action | Tennis News

Jack Dripper will aim to become the first British champion in Queens since Andy Murray in 2016, but Carlos Alcaraz is scheduled to be the semester after celebrating his fifth title in the Grand Slam championship in the French Open.

Dryber is ranked fourth, but he is facing a battle to hold this position before Wimbledon.

He chose not to defend the title he won in Stuttgart last year, which means that he will return to the bottom of Novak Djokovic on Monday, while Taylor Fritz will also exceed after returning to the model this week.

Dripper, one of the prominent competitors in the crown in the tournament that started on Monday, and a colleague of Brett Jacob Vernelli in the main clouds on the right, where the latter got his place thanks to the withdrawals – which also includes another former hero in Matteo Bertini – after he previously got a ground card.

HSBC – first round

• Jacques Dripper (2) against Jennson Brooksby (USA)
• Jacob Vernelli against the qualifiers
• Cam Norrie Vs Jakub Mensik (CZE) (8)
• Billy Harris against Gabriel Diallo (Can)
• Dan Evans Vs Frances Tiafoe (USA) (7)

Cameron Nuri and Dan Evans also got wild cards, but the hero of referee Tommy Paul withdrew.

Paul suffers from a problem with the abdomen, while the Italian Lorenzo Musiti, who was beaten by the American last year, is still recovering from a leg injury that forced him to retire during the French semi -finals against Carlos Alcaraz and will miss the event as well.

Wimbledon Al -Karaz champion returned to work on the grass after celebrating his success in Paris at the end of last week.

In this field, he will be joined by the former final final of Queen Nuri, who is backing from the classification after a strong campaign from the stadium, and the veteran Ivans and his British teammate Billy Harris.

Derbar starts the grass season with the first round meeting with Ginson Brooksby.

The British No. 1 cannot face Francis Tiavoy in the quarter -finals, or either Estaburn’s Open Champion Taylor Fritz or Fifth Sector Alex de Minor in the semi -finals.

Alcaraz will face his compatriot Alejandro Davidovich Fukina in his first match on the grass. On the horizon in the same quarter of clouds like World No. 2, the American star Ben Shelton.

The sinner suffers after the heroic points are missing

tennis against Carlos Caraz in Spain in Roland Gar"/>

Jannik Sinner admits that it will be difficult to stop thinking about the opportunities he lost in his French open loss of Carlos.

The Italian held three consecutive points in the match in the fourth group of last weekend’s conflict in Roland Garros, after it also led two groups to love, only to Alcaraz to respond and demand the title of Grand Slam 5, while it was welcomed as one of the best main finals of all ages.

Both men have returned to work next week, with the categorical category in Queens, while the wrong will compete in Terra Wortmann in Haley.

World 1 went to Italy after the defeat, but he hopes to find some condolences in the match court.

He told Tennis TV: “It was certainly a great loss. I am still thinking about these two points, and you will not stop here, and I know that.

“But, in the other direction, I am happy to be here, I am happy to start a new tournament. I think this helps me to enter again in the rhythm of the match, and let’s see how I will interact.

“You can see the downside but there is also a positive side. I never played tennis on clay like this.

“I went to Rome, I made the final match there. I played in Paris, and I made permanently in a big, very amazing championship, and the level we played, I and Carlos, was very high, so I was happy to be part of this.”

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