Alcaraz last reacted to an inspired Zverev and said goodbye to Paris

This is a special phenomenon because it has been demonstrated enough and will continue to do so. At age 19, the time was in his favor. The bases are well established and he enjoys a special angel who introduces the gift of the sport, the chosen ones for glory. Carlos Alcaraz anger returns to the palm tree, because logically his expectations were high and he didn’t want to lose even Parcheesi. Even this experience will be important in the immediate future, next time.

The dominator of this season’s European clay court tour got off to a bad start at the worst time. Roland Garros shone on that surface and the quarter-final was a unique international showcase. The logical tension of that relationship, which affected Alcaraz for an hour and a half, was combined with the highest German inspiration. alexander zverev, a more than respectable rival of 25 years and world number three. Semi-finalist for the second time in Paris, finalist of US Open 2020. Quite fickle, especially in five sets, but scary opponent when he enters the root of the victory, carried by his powerful serve from a nearly two-meter vantage point.

Zverev won 6-4, 6-4, 4-6 and 7-6 (7) at 3h.18‘of a sunny day. As the student also Spanish Davis Cup captain will sign hopefully Sergio Bruguera, who gains stability if his serve ‘cannon shots’ works. Both he and Carlos Alcaraz himself knew that this event was not the same as the final in Madrid, which the Spanish won 6-3, 6-1. Other conditions: Murcian was released, at the top and Sascha remembered that she slept around five in the morning for her last semifinal in Stefanos Tsitsipas. Weeks passed and the event imposed.

Alcaraz is so quick that his compulsiveness sometimes hides the reality of his appearance and the dangers it poses. One, your experience. He has lived a lot at a very fast pace but this is only his second Roland Garros, his sixth Grand Slam. The nerves appeared so overwhelming at first that it was too costly.

Understandably he came close to elimination in the second round against Albert Ramos, to whom he raised a ‘match’ ball. It is understood that it may fall before Zverev limit to 60 involuntary mistakes: 56 for 46 winners (39 and 34 his opponent).

The champion from Miami, on hard, and from Rio, Godó and Madrid, on clay, hit impossible blows, he showed his hand to the left: 42!. He did a lot, especially when he saved one of those who left the break ball for 5-4 and served the rival in the third set he stole from him. Launched, driven by stands, there is a ball in the ‘tiebreak’ to force the fifth sleeve. He threw the backhand into the net, the one that went into the rest at the second point of the ‘match’ with a bright Zverev. More consistent and applied than usual.

‘Carlos, Carlos’, the central favorite

Carlos, Carlos !, chanted the majority of the 14,800 present Philippe Chattier on their occasions. He picked up the tennis player, who struggled to give himself a chance to almost come. He wasn’t that day, though he would almost straighten it out because at the last stretch it looked like in recent months. It has been a day of glory for Zverev, who had already defeated a younger Alcaraz in Acapulco and Vienna, in 2021.

His second farewell to 22 clay matches, after one in Monte Carlo against Sebastian Korda. First defeat after fourteen in a row. It hurts now, it will work later. This is only his fourth KO in 36 meetings. It was just beginning for him. A few days with family, the occasional golf hole and grass. In a few weeks, to the Queenthinking of Wimbledon. He did not improve the US Open quarters, he would insist.