The 2024 tennis season is just around the corner and beyond the expectation generated by Rafa Nadal’s return to the courts after solving his physical problems, another of the highlights will be the duel for number one that they will surely star in. Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.
Before welcoming the new season, the two best tennis players in the world at the moment will meet in a mini exhibition tournament that will be held between 2023 and 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The match between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic at the Tennis Cup in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, is scheduled for this Wednesday, December 27, starting at 4:00 p.m. in Spain (6:00 p.m., local time) and will take place at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, with capacity for 40,000 spectators.
This exhibition tennis match at the Tennis Cup in Riyadh between Alcaraz and Djokovic can be followed on television from Spain on the streaming platform DAZN, which has acquired the rights to this preseason tournament.
The duel between the first in the ATP ranking will not be the only one that takes place at the Tennis Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as this preseason championship will also bring together two of the best tennis players of the moment in the WTA ranking, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the Tunisian Ons Jabeur.
This tournament is just one more investment from Saudi Arabia, which wants to look into tennis and will host the NextGen ATP Finals starting in 2023, in addition to the possibility of achieving an ATP Masters 1000 category tournament starting in 2025.
The strong financial prize for participants in the Riyadh Tennis Cup attracts the best male and female tennis players every year, and this edition has the Spaniard and the Serbian as one of the best attractions.
This will close the circle of confrontations between Alcaraz and Djokovic in 2023, in which they met four times, with a favorable balance for the Serbian, who won three matches: in the semifinals of Roland Garros, the ATP Finals and in the final of the Cincinnati Masters 1000, while the Murcian only won the Wimbledon final.
