Carlos Alcaraz has qualified for the ATP finals along with the other seven best tennis players of the year, from November 13 to 20 on a hard court in the Italian city of Turin.
After reaching the semifinals of the US Open in the second longest match in the history of this competition, will debut in that tournament after participating last season in the Association of Professional Tennis Players’ New Generations finals for promising youngsters in Milan, where he won the title by winning all five of his matches.
He is the youngest tennis player to reach this round of a Grand Slam since Rafa Nadal at Roland Garros in 2005when the Mallorcan won the first of 14 titles in Paris and reached the semifinals, beating David Ferrer from Alicante in the quarterfinals three days after his 19th birthday, and the one from El Palmar reached that time by another great one with 19 years, 4 months and 3 days.
It was achieved from El Palmar after successively defeating the Argentines Sebastián Báez (7-5, 7-5, 2-0 and the withdrawal of the rival due to injury) and Federico Coria (6-2 , 6-1 and 7-5), the American Jenson Brooksby (6-3, 6-3 and 6-3), the Croatian Marin Cilic (6-4, 3-6, 66-4, 4-6 and 6 -3) and Sinner in one of the most spectacular matches in US Open history and the second longest.
The next obstacle for Juan Carlos Ferrero’s student is Frances Tiafoethe American was able to eliminate Nadal in the round of 16 and in the quarterfinals the Russian Andrey Rublev was eliminated.
24 years old and world number 24, he defeated Alcaraz in the only precedent of a duel between the two in the first round of the ATP 500 in Barcelona in 2021 on clay when the Marylander was world number 65 and the Murcian is the 119.
The other semifinal will be contested by Norwegian Casper Ruud and the russian Karen Khachanov.
Source: La Verdad
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