The Italian Matteo Berrettini, who yesterday played against a teenager who should be seen often in the future at the ATP final, has been in Turin since Monday. The only 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz proved once again, especially at the beginning, that he could be the absolute star of the future and dominated Berrettini, who was seven years older, in the first set he barely gave the seventh place a chance and won 6: 1.
Zverev with difficulty
“He can do everything, he has no weaknesses,” says Austria’s former number one Hans Kary. But he also saw how Juan Carlos Ferrero’s protégé slacked off in the second set and lost it 6: 7 (2). In the remarkable third set, Alcaraz lost a 4: 1 lead, but to the cheers of the audience, the Spaniard prevailed 1: 6, 6: 7 and 7: 6.
For Alcaraz it is the first semi-final in a 500 tournament, and Vienna has a new crowd favorite. In the semifinals on Saturday (2 p.m.), the German Alexander Zverev, who beat Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime, another young star (21). The Olympic champion won 6: 4, 3: 6 and 6: 3.
