The reaction of the Alcaraz champion to save a difficult test

Carlos Alcaraz He commented that “a result like this is not normal”, in reference to his resounding 6-1, 6-2 victory over the former two-time tournament champion Alexander Zverev. The Murcian struck a nerve-wracking opponent, who immediately thought he was unarmed to face the defending champion at this Masters 1000 ATP Mutua Madrid Open.

If that victory of the KOT of the tennis player from El Palmar is deserved, it has more value after twenty-four hours to pass in vain the difficult test presented by the Russian. Karen Khachanova26 years old and world number 12.

Alcaraz surrendered for the better part of the Spanish schoolboy’s second set of victories Pepo Clavet, boldly looking for the initiative with his powerful blows. The Olympic silver medalist showed his power on hard court, it was not for nothing that he was a semifinalist at the last US Open and Australian Open, but that moment of form, of blind confidence in what he was doing, also meant a leap in quality in clay, a surface he also knew. He is a tennis player, for example, of the RCT Barcelona-1899, where he has passed infrequently since his stage in white rooster of the coach.

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The best Khachanov in the clay collided with the Alcaraz of many resources, against all kinds of rivals and under any circumstances. The Murcian stepped up when he had the worst to avoid greater evils, and prevailed 6-4 and 7-5 in 1h.51′. He raised balls from 1-5, a 2-5 with a favorable partial of 5-0.

Alcaraz, 20th birthday on the track

He reached the goal of making it to the semifinals. He will be 20 years old playing in Caja Mágica against Croatian Borna Coric or the german Daniel Altmayer. This is his sixth tournament of the course, and in all at least he has reached the penultimate round. Stability. Compulsion

The ability to transform at the enemy’s request, as well as the conditions, such as the wind that blew for a good portion of the match. He put his head down for a while, when he doubled Khachanov on unforced errors, 20 to 10, losing 1-4 in the second set. “We’ll try to raise the body language a little, so that he notices you,” his technician asked him. Juan Carlos Ferrero. That he was present before an enemy in a vein of victories.

And he rose again Alcaraz who places the impossible ball, risks and succeeds, either with a drop shot or a backhand parallel to the line. Not even at 2-5 did he stop clinging to the set. On the contrary, he signed a 5-0 run to the dismay of Karen Khachanovawho had never fought alone as on this occasion with the Murcian.

Nothing to do with the overwhelming results of 2022 in favor of the Spaniards on the ground: 6-1, 6-4 and 6-4 at Roland Garros; 6-0 and 6-2 in Hamburg.

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Khachanov He raised a wrist almost all the time. At 6-4 in the first set, Alcaraz once broke the Russian’s serve, for 4-3 he had to defend by raising the 4-4 ​​ball, from the ‘break’, put the liberating 5- 3 behind the serve. . He finished 6-4 in 49 minutes of heavy work.

It got stronger after that. Came the champion’s reaction Carlos Alcaraz, which added its nineteenth consecutive victory in Spain. In the season, positive balance 27-2, 17-1 on clay, surface leading this year.

Alcaraz: “He took me to the limit”

Alcaraz he won a match that “gave me a lot of confidence. He pushed me to the limit. He picked up on the little details”. The inspiration of the greats, that ball that hits the ribbon and ends in their favor at a crucial moment. As a step. The magic wand reserved for the chosen ones.