Alcaraz defeated Coric and equaled his best streak as a professional

Carlos Alcaraz, number 1 in world tennis, will rest before the American tour equaling his best winning streak as a professional, with 14 in a row, after the one he achieved this Saturday against the Croatian Borna Coric in the Hopman Cup, which did not prevent Spain from getting out of the final of the mixed competition for countries taking place in the French city of Nice, which ended with the first defeat of Rebecca Masarova. The Spanish pair are poised to sign up for a tie against Croatia if they win tonight’s mixed doubles.

AlcarazThe 20-year-old reached his fourteenth consecutive victory with the second in this tournament and therefore delivered in his individual meetings. In the first, played on Friday, he beat the Belgian David Goffin, 32 years old and number 111 in the ATP rankings, and a day later he defeated Coric, 26 and fifteenth, 6-3, 6-7 (6) and clear 10-5 in the final super tie break.

With Croatia in danger of their place in the final and Spain out of options due to Masarova’s first loss, the tennis player from El Palmar showed his winning gene and continued his winning streak, which started at the ATP 500 tournament at Queen’s, held at the Wimbledon Grand Slam -he won both titles- and did not break it at the Hopman Cup.

He turned his face against Borna Coric to give a point to Spain. He did not enjoy his best version but at times he showed a higher level than he showed on Friday against Goffin. In both cases, the performance on the track was enough for the Spaniards to win. He beat Coric for the second time, who he won at the Masters 1,000 in Madrid, in May, the only time he has matched the tennis player from Zagreb.

With this dynamic open to him, the student of JJuan Carlos Ferrero he defeated, in that order, Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech, Czech Jiri Lehecka, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, American Sebastian Korda and Australian Alex De Miñaur, at Queen’s; the French Jeremy Chardy and Alexandre Muller, the Chilean Nicolás Jarry, the Italian Matteo Berrettini, the Danish Holger Rune, the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, at Wimbledon; and that of Goffin and Coric in the French city of Nice.

You have to go back to the spring of 2022 to see a similar streak made by Alcaraz, who won five matches where he won the ATP 500 in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In that streak he beat the Korean Soon Woo Kwon, the Balearic Jaume Munar, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, De Miñaur and another Spaniard, Pablo Carreño, in Godó; the Georgian Nikolov Basilashvili, the British Cameron Norrie, the Balearic Rafa Nadal, Djokovic and Zverev, at the Mutua Madrid Open; and Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero, Catalan Albert Ramos, Korda and Russian Karen Khachanov, in Paris.

Rest before the American tour

The Murcian player, who gave up playing the ATP 500 in Hamburg and the ATP 250 in UMAG, will take a few days and reappear on the American Tour that will take him to play the US Open, where he will defend the title he won last year, and before that he will play in the Masters 1,000 in Toronto, which will be held from August 7 in the next Can States.

In Canada, he did not pass the first round in 2022, while in the American event he reached the quarterfinals, two Masters 1000 to refine the set-up for the last Grand Slam of the season, the United States Open, where last year he won the first ‘major’ of his career.