That tennis is a complicated sport and can bring tremendous troubles on the road to glory is something already known to all, but Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image lived it in his own flesh with a tremendous rawness in this ATP Masters 1000 Paris-Bercy 2021. The Murcian knew himself superior to Hugo GastonBut he was also aware of the thorny context in which the party would develop; a tremendously inspired player, coming from the previous phase, with the public supporting him to unsuspected limits and with a style of play that could do him a lot of damage if the nerves appeared. Not only did they appear, but they took over the mind and racket of the young Spaniard, who has received one of those lessons that are difficult to digest in the short term, but vital in his formative stage. 6-4 7-5 was the end result for Gaston.
The repertoire of blows, potential and ability to project himself towards great successes in the future is much higher in the case of the Spanish, but you do not win games with that, and less with 18 years. Carlos came across a pressure cooker in the first set, an unreal atmosphere for a weekday morning, but also with a player who knew what to do at all times. Gaston was weaving a spider web in which he caught the Spaniard without him noticing; an amalgam of deadly traps in which Alcaraz fell over and over again without being able to find his way out.
The Spanish came out well, aggressive from the start and dominating from the bottom. He took a break advantage up to two times, but could not find a way to impose his tennis on serve. At 4-2, he lost the focus of the game, began to make mistakes in the game of cat and mouse proposed by the French, and saw how his tactical intelligence, with impossible defenses, left and changes in height, forced him to assume excessive risks. It was a moral blow, but it was interpreted as a mere accident, a necessary setback for Carlos to react and put his ideas in order to capture what was evident: his superiority.
Alcaraz lost seven consecutive games in the second set
That theory was reinforced by the first five games of the partial second, where the Murcian flew over the court and imposed his tennis with an iron fist. Gaston had no answers, who was 15-30 in the sixth game, that is, about to fit a donut. Alcaraz was wrong, he lowered the intensity and chose the blows wrong, without being aware of how far the sentence would go for not knowing how to read that situation. He did not feel comfortable in the game again. There was a multi-organ failure in his tennis, an absolute inability not to overflow, but to score points and score more than two balls. The world fell on the young Spaniard, who gave up without remission before a Hugo Gaston at a stratospheric level. Much to enjoy for the Gaul and much to learn for Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image.
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