Carlos Alcaraz decorated his new world number 1 with another victory

Carlos Alcaraz20, won another win Albert Ramos (6-4, 6-1 in 1h.26′) is his new world number 1 and advances to the 3rd round of Rome Masters 1,000where he faces the Czech on Monday Jiri Lehecka (39th) or the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (135º).

🇮🇹 Rome ❤️ Carlitos 🇪🇸@carlosalcaraz advanced to the third round on his debut in Rome!@InteBNLdItaly | #IBI23 pic.twitter.com/T96NsGReCs

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The Murcian, then only 19 years old, became the US Open 2022 to the youngest king of tennis in history and next Monday, May 22, he will climb to that number for the third time in his career because, when he took to the court this Saturday, he is already guaranteed 10 points over the mark of Novak Djokovic (6,775), defending the title and 1,000 points in Rome and, therefore, this week will not be able to increase that number.

Alcaraz maintained his unbeaten status on the European tour on clay and now has 12 consecutive victories counting his titles in Count of Barcelona’s Godó Trophy and the Madrid Masters 1,000. He had never played in Rome and he settled his debut with an ex officio victory on a day that was not very good for showing off due to the weight of the court.

This season he has a brilliant overall record of 30 wins and only two losses, against Cameron Norrie at the end of river and Jannik Sinner in the semifinals of Miami.

The rain changed the course of the day and, when the matches resumed, it left the Roman courts wet and the heavy balls easily moved. Carlos needed more time to find his usual fearsome rhythm (he gave away his first turn on serve) and Ramos, 35 years old and ranked 72, took advantage of this to keep watch throughout the first set.

Increasingly comfortable with his shots and moves, Alcaraz recovered the break in the fourth game (2-2) and scored the first set by breaking the Catalan’s serve again in the 10th game (6-4). After completing the most difficult work, the Murcian flew at a new pace in the second set, with confidence and several shots that could not pay for Ramos (6-1). The parity in unforced errors (14), but the absolute imbalance in winners (28-11) and a good 81% of the first serve to quickly take the initiative.

That’s the reality of today’s tennis: Alcaraz’s matches usually depend on him and, at his best level, few rivals are intuited that can hinder that general power and his various resources, so the The tennis world awaits with high hopes a clash between him and Djokovic, perhaps in the final in Rome if both can overcome all their obstacles.

At the start, Carlos defeated Albert Ramos for the fourth time in four games, which will remain linked in the history of Alcaraz because the Murcian’s first ATP victory was against the left-handed Catalan, when he was 16 years old. only, in the tournament of Rio de Janeiro 2020: 7-6 (2), 4-6 and 7-6 (2). That day he showed all his present and future potential. Since then, with more haste than pause, Alcaraz has fulfilled all the expectations around him to become a great tennis sensation for the next few years.