“Right now I feel like I can win, that I’m there and I’m one of the favorites”. Carlos Alcaraz continues to grow with each game in the Indian Wells Masters 1000, where three games separate him from the title and from reclaiming the number 1.
After defeating Thanasi Kokkinakis and Jack Draper on the fast track, the US Open champion faces a real litmus test against one of the few rivals who seem to have made a proposal: Felix Auger-Aliassime.
the canadian He qualified for the quarterfinals after eliminating American Tommy Paul in a very even match by 3-6, 6-3 and 7-6(6) after coming back to save six match points against him in the third set.
Auger-Aliassime outplayed the Spaniards the three times they crossed paths and he is the only tennis player Alcaraz has not beaten on the circuit, having played against him on more than two occasions.
The student of Toni Nadal, 22 and currently in tenth place, first defeated Alcaraz in the quarterfinals of the 2021 US Openafter the Murcian retired due to injury when he lost 6-3, 6-1.
We had to wait until 2022 to attend the following duels between the two. The American dominated again, this time 6-7, 6-4, 6-2, starring in a comeback in the Davis Cup series held in Valencia. There the Murcian accused the accumulated fatigue because he had just won the US Open five days earlier in New York.
The third clash between the two tennis players took place at the ATP 500 in Basel, in Switzerland, and history repeated itself. Auger-Aliassime won on October 29, 6-3, 6-2.
The other player who has beaten Alcaraz the most on the ATP is Alexander Zverevon three occasions as well but in this case in four games and Carlos got the victory over Hamburg in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open by 6-3 and 6-1.
In the case of breaking his oath against Auger-Aliassime, Alcaraz they will see each other in the semifinals, this Saturday, against the winner of the match between the current champion, Taylor Fritz, and Jannik Sinner. All this leads to a grand final that can restore him, if he wins, a number 1 that he can only defend in Miami if he revalidates the title he won last year.
Source: La Verdad
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