Carlos Alcaraz contention for the second consecutive edition in the round of 16 of Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 ATP. The experience today, Thursday, has nothing to do with what was experienced twelve months ago, when the public devoted themselves to booing him and pressuring him as much as possible in favor of his player, the French Hugo Gastonwho won 6-4 and 7-5.
A hell that affected the Murcian at the time, although it was also a reason to accelerate his premature aging. With great speed he returned to the ‘indoor’ of the French capital as the youngest world number one at 19 years old.
This afternoon he no longer had to deal with the whims of the bystanders. He gained status and would have a famous veteran before him, but little was given to war or to raising the masses. Bulgarian has more style than enthusiasm Grigor Dimitrov, 31 years old and world number 28.
This will be the student’s first confrontation of John Charles Ferrero with whom he became the champion of the ATP Finals, the Masters, in 2017. Since then, the talented and consistent Dimitrov, recent semifinalist in Vienna and who in Paris defeated the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp (7-6 and 7 -6) and the Italian Fabio Fognini (6-0 and 7-5) to reach this event, which Alcaraz won by defeating the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4 and 6-4.
“The knee is doing well, there are discomforts, it’s the end of the year and you have to take care of them, but now it’s pretty good. I didn’t feel any pain in the knee,” said Alcaraz, who wore a bandage of kinesiological strips on his left knee.
Many matches, 56 singles wins out of 68, so successful that the champion of the US Open accumulated, which assured the world number one after Paris as soon as Rafa Nadal was eliminated. And he can seal the definitive lead of the season by lifting the champion trophy over Bercy.
In any case, every point, and it will be 90 more in the case of victory against Dimigrov, brings him closer to this goal of becoming the youngest No. 1 final of the year in history. He is very close.
The Alcaraz-Dimitrov match will be played at noon, after the match that opens in the middle at 11:00: Lorenzo Musetti against Casper Ruud. The tournament can be followed on television on Movistar +. And the Mundo Deportivo website will cover the Murcian match live.
Source: La Verdad
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