ATP Dubai: Novak Djokovic on comeback against Lorenzo Musetti
Novak Djokovic will return to action on the ATP tour next week. The world number one opens in Dubai against Lorenzo Musetti .
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Feb 19, 2022, 12:39 pm
It's been a long, long time since Novak Djokovic swung a tennis racket in a competition. This was most recently the case with the Davis Cup final round in Madrid at the end of last year. Next week at the ATP Tour 500 tournament in Dubai, the industry leader will be making his comeback. And meets Italian Lorenzo Musetti at the start, against whom Djokovic fell 2-0 down in Roland Garros last year - and still won confidently.
In round two it would be against the winner of the game between Alex de Minaur and Karen Khachanov , in the quarter-finals Roberto Bautista-Agut could be waiting for a man with whom Djokovic traditionally has problems.
Rublev and Auger-Aliassime still engaged in Marseille
Andrey Rublev , the number two in Dubai, starts against Daniel Evans, a demanding task. Especially since Rublev will still be active in the semi-finals in Marseille today. Just like Félix Auger-Aliassime : The Canadian then opens against Nikoloz Basilashvili in Dubai.
Aslan Karatsev enters the race as the defending champion and first has to get Mackenzie McDonald out of the way. In the quarterfinals, Karatsev could face a Russian duel with Rublev. Andy Murray enters against a qualifier and, in the event of a win, then plays against either Jannik Sinner or Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina. Jan-Lennard Struff is the only German-speaking player in the main draw. The Warsteiner starts against a qualifier.