Alcaraz withdrew due to injury against Rune in Paris-Bercy

I came Carlos Alcaraz in Paris fearing for some discomfort in his left knee. The doctors ruled something serious, his own sensations invited him to face the Masters 1000 ATP in Paris with solvency. After two wins, in the quarterfinals, this Friday, he didn’t even show up with a bandage on the joint.

However, the youngest world number one in history had to withdraw due to injury. The quarterfinal match against the Danish did not end Holger Runesame age (19) and No. 18 in the ranking.

No knee problems. Alcaraz noticed pain on the left side during a violent right return in the tenth game of the second round. He held on in the eleventh, but sought medical attention as the pain worsened on the serve.

Some massage with cream and pills to try it in the ‘tiebreak’. At the fourth point he left it. I didn’t serve. He lost 3-6, 6-6 (1-3 in tiebreak). Staying on the Paris-Bercy track can only make the muscle pain worse. A delicate place for a tennis player, as Rafa Nadal can very well testify this season with his stomach injury, which requires himself and recovery time.

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Oh 70 individual matches from Murcia, a difficult campaign with a lot of accumulated success: 57 wins, five titles, seven finals played. the champion of US Open He showed the wisdom of a great who knew how to prevent rather than cure. He did not hesitate to inform the chair umpire and his rival, whom he had known since childhood as they were both outstanding children, that their participation was over.

Important challenges remain to complete the course. Alcaraz is about to tie the number one final of the year. He wants to do it at his premiere in ATP Finals, the Masters of the eight best will be played over several days, from November 13 to 20 in Turin.

And he is on the list of the Spanish team of Davis cupfor the Malaga Finals from November 22 to 27.

Alcaraz, again in the hands of doctors, with his fingers crossed that the medical alert does not exceed a passing concern.

He was making a big effort to catch up with a stellar Holger Rune in the opening set. The Nordic lived 36 minutes of maximum inspiration, showing why he won 17 of his last 19 meetings, that he reached the finals of his three previous events, winning in Stockholm and losing Sofia and Basel.

Despite that 3-6 and dominating feeling, Alcaraz has maintained his competitive edge. He came back from a break point to make it 1-0 in the second set, starting the comeback. He saved the mistakes and started shooting with conviction. Rune responded to the challenge by resisting the Murcian’s push, lifting two break points for 4-4.

Throughout the climb, Alcaraz felt pain. The work of the physiotherapist and pill doctor in the contest did not prevent him from choosing goodbye, abandonment.

Rune will meet again in the ‘semis’ in Paris with his executioner in the Basel final, the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who added her sixteenth straight match win defeating American Frances Tiafoe 6-1 and 6-4.