Even if it’s not nadal, Alcaraz it also aroused passions in Paris. Before almost a full court in Bercy, the Murcian tennis player did his homework in front of a warrior Nishioka to access the round of 16 (6-4 and 6-4). The poor Murcian solved the match in one hour and thirteen minutes, almost on the fast track. Although the score was tight, the winning shots statistic was huge: 30-7, enough to access the next round, where the winner of Dimitrov–Fognini.
Nishioka forced Alcaraz multiply the efforts in an extreme beginning where one or the other does not offer too many cracks. The Japanese signed a first blank game, which the Murcian immediately imitated with another equal. It wasn’t until the fifth game of the first set that the world number one broke his rival’s serve. Alcaraz went up to the net to confirm his advantage with an impressive smash.
Although the break was good Nishioka, he stole the court with personality in the first set. Two unforced errors by Alcaraz in the eighth game opened a gap for the world number 38 to tie the match. However, a right cross from the student of Ferrero It served him for the counterbreak. Half an hour later, sure that he had to go up to the net, he sealed his superiority with the winning shot: 6-4.
Alcaraz tried to fly in the second set with a nice crosscourt backhand and a drop shot, but Nishioka did not resign The Japanese nervously accepted the exchange of blows with a Alcaraz used to that rhythm. In the best moments of his rival, the champion of the last US Open reacted as it is necessary to be number one: with character and with blank games to restrain the heart. Nishiokaalthough it remains firmly on track.
The second set, which was also played, was decided in the ninth game after the patience and consistency he had Alcaraz. With a great right, the Murcian left a disappointed man planted Nishioka, which was seen before the abyss. The number one went for the victory with determination and he got it in a big way, in a blank game that deserved the general applause of an audience enthusiastic about the talent of Charlie Brown.
Source: La Verdad
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