The Russians will face the Poles in the quarterfinals on Wednesday Hubert Hurkaczwho defeated the tournament’s great revelation, Frenchman Arthur Cazaux, in three sets, 7-6(6), 7-6(3), 6-4
Alcaraz-Kecmanovic was the first match of the night session. So far, two of the four men’s matches scheduled for the day have been completed. In the first of them Daniil Medvedev defeated the Portuguese Nuno Borges by 6-3, 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-1
This is the first time that both players face off in a Grand Slamwhere Kecmanovic This came after defeating two seeds in a row in five sets. He defeated Struff in the second round 6-4, 1-6, 7-6, 1-6 and 7-6while in the third he had a sensational victory against Tommy Paul 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 and 6-0respectively
In this way, the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero, who did not travel to Melbourne while recovering from knee surgery – Samuel López manages Alcaraz -, raised the bar in this tournament where in 2021 he reached the second round – he fell to Swede Mikael Ymer 6-2, 4-6, 4-6 and 6-7 (5) after defeating the Dutch Botic Van de Zanschulp 6-1, 6-4 and 6-4 – and in 2022 he reached the third round, where he was defeated by the Italian Matteo Berrettini by 2-6, 6-7 ( 3), 6-4, 6-2 and 6-7 (7) in 2022. That year he managed to defeat the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 6-2, 6-2 and 6-3 and the Serbian Dusan Lajovic 6-2, 6-1 and 7-5.
Alcaraz, who missed the 2023 oceanic edition due to an untimely injury when his suitcases were almost packed to travel, will be looking for the quarterfinals after defeating the Frenchman in the first three rounds. Richard Gasquet by 7-6 (5), 6-1 and 6-2 in 2 hours and 22 minutes, in Italian Lorenzo Sonego in four sets 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3 and 7-6 (3) in 3 hours and 25 minutes and Chinese Juncheng Shang 6-1, 6-1, 1-0 and the Asian was abandoned due to injury after 1 hour and 7 minutes on court
There, the Murcian has to do his best take the match by a tight 6-7(5), 6-3 and 7-6(5)after two hours and 23 minutes of play
Alcaraz, who commented in the press conference after his first victory that he prefers to play in the sun, the only precedent between the two, at the Miami Masters 1000 in 2022
Good morning! We will start the live match in the round of 16 of the Australian Open that will face Carlos Alcaraz and Miomir Kecmanovic, “a tough battle”, as he said yesterday in a press conference
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Source: La Verdad
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