Alcaraz – Djokovic, live | Tennis, live: Follow the Mutua Madrid Open

15-15 Alcaraz, right on the net.
A quarter of an hour semifinal.

15-0 Alcaraz,
first ace

Carlos Alcaraz 2-1 Novak Djokovic

I play 15 Djokovic. Another story if he find good first serves.

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30-0 Djokovic applied himself to a serve he lost at the start. This should be your strength.

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Carlos Alcaraz 2-0 Novak Djokovic
Murcian game, confirms the break. CLOSE WITH A PUNCH, defending well at first. With a proper shot, the point mark is that he ends up making his own changes. explosion

Advantages of Alcaraz. Rang with the right-handed cannon he has, he gives it a clue and climbs into the net to cushion the ball and win the score.

both. Good first serve from Alcaraz, he couldn’t control it with Djokovic’s remaining backhand. long ball
SAVE CARLITOS BREAK BALL.

30-40 DJOKOVIC BREAK BALL. Another unforced error by Carlitos, now entitled. The nervousness typical of starting in the semifinals. More responsibility removed than reduced.

30-30 Alcaraz error, reverse without control in doubles corridor.

30-15 Alcaraz’s open serve had no continuity as the backhand cross entered the net.

30-0 Alcaraz, launched.

15-0 Alcaraz,
that before Nadal he had not touched the first break, he needed a second to put the ground in between.

Carlos Alcaraz 1-0 Novak Djokovic
Alcaraz already dominates,
PAHINGA. Djokovic climbed into the net with the first serve, volleying deep but soft as Alcaraz waited ready to hit the crosscourt backhand passing. A rest that is not smelled
Hurkacz in the semifinals.
Carlitos is on a different level now.

30-40 BREAK BALL ALCARAZ. Then
Djokovic’s first double fault.

Arnaud Lichtenstein corrected his linesman.
Djokovic’s ball sang, touching the line. The point is repetitive.

30-30 Alcaraz network rights. The Serbian is squeezed with a second serve.

15-30 Alcaraz.
Djokovic’s first ace came.

0-30 Alcaraz, reduced Djokovic’s best weapon, the serve. And Serbian’s long backhand, unforced error.

0-15 Alcaraz, already dominating the parallel right, after deducting the first serve from Djokovic,
triple tournament champion. Caja Mágica roared at the first point, more than 10,000 spectators.

Carlos Alcaraz 0-0 Novak Djokovic
The battle is about to begin. Nole serves because Carlitos wants that. He won the toss and chose to deduct.

Rafa Nadal already has a training track reserved for tomorrow Sunday in Rome, from 4 to 5 p.m. with Andrey Rublev. Another Masters 1000 ATP next week. And on the nearby Roland Garros horizon.

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Two more minutes of warm-up, and play.
First duel between Alcaraz and Djokovic.

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Carlos Alcaraz
won the toss and chose to deduct.

Carlos Alcaraz, with a bandage on his ankle and also on his right wrist, where he was wearing a wristband. Product of yesterday’s fall against Rafa Nadal. The team is confident that this will not be an obstacle for the tennis player from El Palmar to compete at his current high level.

Manolo Santana Stadium welcomes Carlos Alcaraz. There was also a standing ovation for Novak Djokovic. A great semifinal.

Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic entered the track, in this order according to world ranking: 9th and 1st. On Monday, 6th and 1st.

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Players go to the center:
first Alcaraz vs. Djokovic.

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The semifinal with the youngest and oldest in the history of the tournament
Carlos Alcaraz, 19 years and 2 days, the youngest semifinalist of the Mutua Madrid Open.
Novak Djokovic, 34 years and 11 months, the oldest.

Soon Carlos Alcaraz, 19 years old and world number 9 (will be 6th on Monday), and Novak Djokovic, 34 years old and number 1, will appear in the middle.

French Renaud Lichtenstein referee the match.

Sun in Madrid, the conditions of the game similar to those in the sun rooms:
Novak Djokovic defeated Hubert Hurkacz 6-3 6-4. Carlos Alcaraz fulfilled the dream of beating his idol Rafa Nadal 6-2, 1-6 and 6-3.

late a few minutes
Those who take track players to prepare the clay after the end of the women’s doubles finals: Dabrowski and Olmos defeated Krawczyk and Schuurs 7-6, 5-7 and 10-7.

Going for the Nadal-Djokovic double
Only eleven players beat Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the same tournament. On consecutive days, as may happen with Carlos Alcaraz, only Roger Federer (ATP Finals 2010), Nikolay Davydenko (Shangahi 2009), Andy Roddick (Dubai 2008) and David Nalbandian (Madrid 2007).
Not yet on clay: another record option for Murcian.

Another semifinal, in an evening session
The reigning champion, German Alexander Zverev, and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas meet before 9pm.

The final is set for tomorrow, Sunday at 6:30 pm

Carlos Alcaraz, to become the third Spanish finalist (and champion) of the tournament
This Masters 1000 ATP arrived in Madrid in the autumn of 2002 indoors and on hard courts. Then he moved to the spring and to the clay. There are only two Spanish finalists and champions: the first, the coach of
Carlos Alcaraz, Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003). later,
Rafa Nadal, with five titles in seven finals. It still premiered hard, in 2005.

moments in different ways
Carlos Alcaraz, fully:
three titles (Rio, Miami and Godó), 26 games won on 29, 14 of 15 on clay.

Novak Djokovic, is in his fourth tournament only after losing to Australia and the United States for not being vaccinated against covid. An early loss to Monte Carlo, runner-up in Belgrade, improves.
He said he was ill, which caused him unexpected fatigue.or, as the only detail that it was not a coronavirus, that it suffered at the beginning of the pandemic. He has also worked on this goal and beyond.
But Roland Garros was his goal.

A first duel, after the previous practice
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic
they filled Track 7 of Caja Mágica in one of his training sessions before his debut. Today they inaugurated their joint award winners.

Carlos Alcaraz, with bandaged right ankle and hand
After the fall suffered at the start of the second set. His team worked hard to keep his right ankle, which was sprained, and his right hand, from hitting the ground, in the best shape. He practiced protective compression bandages.

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The new world number 6 against number 1
Carlos Alcaraz will rise from ninth to sixth place in the world rankings. This is a definite fact, as Novak Djokovic will retain world number one no matter what happens in the semifinals.

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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic, 4 p.m.

Good afternoon. First semifinal of the Mutua Madrid Open. After defeating his idol Rafa Nadal in the third try, Carlos Alcaraz went to No. 1 Novak Djokovic. Not before 4 pm at Manolo Santana Stadium in Caja Mágica