The Italian returns to the courts, after his elimination at the Australian Open at the hands of Novak Djokovic, with the goal of accumulating as many points as possible in these three months where he is not defending anything.
Salah Tahlak, director of the Dubai WTA 1000, has expressed surprise and disappointment at the absence of the world's top two tennis players: "The reasons for their withdrawal were somewhat strange."
The Italian is already preparing for his debut at the ATP in Doha and assures that he has made certain changes to his tennis after his defeat in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
For the first time since 1981 and the third in the Open Era, the first and second seeds will play the final of three ATP circuit tournaments in the same week.
