“I have to go out very focused on the court. I must learn from the mistakes I made those times. That’s true in Valencia we both played a great game. It’s going to be complicated, but I’m really looking forward to playing this”, it means Carlos Alcaraz after losing 6-3 and 6-4, qualified for the semifinals of the ATP 500 indoor tournament on the hard court in Basel.
The House of Roger Federer, still the current champion because the 2020 and 2021 editions were not held due to the coronavirus, will be the scene of one of the most painful meetings of the moment. Maximum interest as the youngest world number one in history at 19 years old meets again with a direct rival of the present and future, the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime22 years old and number 9.
Today, Saturday, not before 2:30 pm (by Movistar+ and live on the Mundo Deportivo website), Alcaraz will come out with extra motivation because he really likes the Frenchman’s pupil. Frederic Fontang and Toni Nadal. There was a good personal relationship, but “no friends on the track”, as the Murcian recalled after beating his academy partner Carreño, a runner when he entered the circuit.
Alcaraz buried the bad memory of the rooms of US Open 2021. Physically punished, injured, he had to retire against Auger-Aliassime when he lost 3-6 and 1-3. He was literally broken, he hadn’t even completed building his body.
Twelve months later he exacted sweet revenge in the tournament proclaiming himself champion and number one at the same time. Now the revenge will be Auger-Aliassime who will get it, since last weeks he is better in his rivalry with Davis Cup in Valenciawho prevailed 6-7(3), 6-4 and 6-2.
More rested physically, in the vocation to be the final number one of the year, Alcaraz faces a challenge because the elements are the elements of the North American, recent champion in Florence and Antwerp indoors, chained 11 in a row victory, closing in on the top eight at the ATP Finals in Turin.
Champion in Rio, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and the US Open, finalist in Hamburg and Umag, Alcaraz is playing in his ninth semifinal of the season, which he wants to be the eighth final, perhaps against Robert Baptist34 years old, who will fight another young tennis player on a roll, the Danish Holger Rune19, on the first day of the Basel semifinals with two Spaniards.
Rune is 12-1 since September 27, reaching the Sofia final and capturing the title in Stockholm.
Source: La Verdad
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