Alcaraz accelerates to the quarterfinals in Hamburg

After overcoming setbacks in the first set, Carlos Alcaraz resolved his engagement with Serbian FIlip Krajinović (7-6(4) and 6-3) to accelerate towards the quarterfinals of the Hamburg tournament where he will face the Russian. Karen Khachanov.

Alcaraz resisted and finally melted Balkan, a stony tennis player who put the first favorite in the competition in trouble. Krajinović, daring, with four set points before the tiebreaker. It’s there somewhere Carlos Alcaraz, at a disadvantage because he was broken in the fifth game, kept the type. He saved himself with the break he got in the tenth and was superior until the set was closed.

Apparently the tennis player shadow The 30-year-old, a finalist in this tournament last year, has weakened. Alcaraz, ranked sixth in the world, was put at 4-1 for good though Balkan broke, narrowed the score and came back into the match. This is a short-term return. Alcaraz kept level while his rival suffered severe physical wear and tear which caused him to keep the pulse of the match. The Spaniard closed the deal in one hour and 52 minutes.

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The winner of Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona and of Miami and Madrid Masters 1000 He is aiming in Hamburg for the fifth victory of his great year and the sixth of his career. In the quarterfinals he will face the Russian Karen Khachanovseventh seeded, winning 6-3 and 7-5 against the Italian Fabio Fognichampion of this event in 2013.

Olympic silver in Tokyo, a finalist in Adelaide this 2022, with four trophies throughout her career but none this year, lost to Alcaraz in the only time the two met. Two months ago, in the past Roland Garros in the Murcian victory in three sets.

The quarterfinals ended in a duel between the Russians Aslan Karatsev to return to Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan (3-6, 6-3 and 6-4) and the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo who deleted russian Andrew Rublev, second favorite, and added his seventh straight victory (6-4 and 6-2).