Alcaraz is not coming this year! The news that came out just after the New Year shocked the outside world!

Recently, the Tokyo 500 Organizing Committee announced that four-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz has confirmed his participation in this year's Tokyo 500. The moment this news was announced, it was not good news for Chinese fans and netizens, or for the China Open tournament.

When almost all the giants have retired, and the only remaining giant, Deyo, prefers to choose to participate in high-level events, it is quite difficult to get the Serbian king to come to support his popularity in a 500 tournament like the China Open. Therefore, among the alternative candidates, Sinner and Alcaraz, two post-00s who have risen strongly in the tennis world, have become the hottest candidates.

In 2023, the China Open attracted both Sinner and Alcaraz to participate in the competition, and was considered by many to be ahead of the Tokyo 500 and earned enough attention and traffic; In 2024, the two will debut again in the China Open, and they will face off in the final, which will fill the topic and make the China Open gain unprecedented attention.

It's just that no one expected that not long after the start of the 2025 season, the news came that Alcaraz would abandon the Chinese Open and move to Tokyo this year, which surprised the outside world.

Now, with the confirmation of Alcaraz's trip to Tokyo this year, it has also shattered a previous rumor from the outside world.

When Alcaraz came to the China Open for the first time in 2023, it was revealed that the Spaniard signed a three-year contract with the China Open, which made many fans and netizens very excited, which means that at least until 2025, the Spaniard can always be seen at the China Open. Judging from the official announcement of Alcaraz in Tokyo this year, it has finally been confirmed that this is untrue news. If he really signed a three-year contract, Alcaraz has always attached great importance to his personal image, and he would definitely not break the contract halfway and push himself into the center of the whirlpool of right and wrong, after all, the Spaniards belong to the popular fried chicken, and they are not short of money at all, so there is no need to get themselves into such a trouble without the spirit of contract.

However, when Alcaraz decided to go to Tokyo to compete this year, fans and netizens on the public opinion side still thought that the Spaniards were doing it for money, even if Alcaraz had money, who would be afraid of having more money!

Many people talk about this with two main reasons.

First, Alcaraz was born in a relatively poor family since he was a child, and his parents cut back on food and clothing in order to support him to play tennis. When Alcaraz made a name for himself in the tennis world, he already had a lot of money, but due to this special life experience since he was a child, he felt that money was not easy to come by, and in order to ensure the quality of life for himself and his family, he naturally wanted to make as much money as possible.

Then, when the Tokyo tournament side offered more appearance fees than the Chinese Open, it is not surprising that the Spaniard weighed his interests and went to Tokyo to compete.

Moreover, Alcaraz is the defending champion of this year's China Open, and if it weren't for the higher appearance fee, how could he have given up the chance to defend his title and go to Tokyo, which is also a 500 tournament. In addition, after the China Open competition, it is more convenient to go to Shanghai to compete, which can save the hard work of flying from Tokyo to Shanghai.

The second is that Alcaraz values money very seriously, and there is a precedent for it.

In 2023, there were rumors that Alcaraz would participate in the Vienna event, and later the Spaniard said that he was not healthy when he missed the event.

However, Vienna tournament director Straka broke the news in an interview with the "Standard" that Alcaraz's absence from this event was not due to physical reasons, but the Spaniard directly offered an appearance fee of up to 5.8 million yuan, and was unwilling to concede, and finally had to give up Alcaraz due to the cost budget of the event. After this incident was announced by the media, public opinion was blown up at that time!

It is precisely because of these two reasons that many people firmly believe that Alcaraz directly gave up defending his title at the China Open and went to Tokyo to compete, which must have been more tempting for the Japanese side, otherwise how could he do so. When Alcaraz came to China to compete in 2023, he kept claiming that he had a fate with China and should have come a long time ago, but it was delayed for special reasons, and he reaped a wave of goodwill among China's huge fan and netizen base.

"It's all said about this, and the feelings have been cultivated, if it weren't for the money, and in the end I was defeated by money, how could I be so ruthless to say that I just left." It was expressed.

In fact, even if Alcaraz gave up the China Open and the Beijing fans and netizens who loved him for money, it can be completely understood that the Spaniard participated in the "Six Kings Grand Slam" exhibition match in Saudi Arabia last year, and in an interview, he unabashedly said, "If you go to a place just to play, not for money, it must be lying." ”

Of course, there are also many people who think that the China Open did not retain Alcaraz, and let the Tokyo event, which also belongs to the 500 level, steal the popular fried chicken in the tennis world, indicating that there is still room for improvement in many aspects such as atmosphere and brand, as long as the players are inseparable from the China Open, even if other events cost more money, I am afraid it will be difficult to pry away a big-name star like Alcaraz.(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)