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Alcaraz suffers in his premiere in Hamburg

19/07/2022

Updated at 7:50 p.m.

Carlos Alcaraz He suffered this Tuesday to overcome his debut in the tournament in Hamburg (Germany), scoring for the ATP and which is played on clay, since he needed to come back and the three sets (3-6, 6-1, 7-6) to get rid of the premises Nicola Kuhn to join Pablo Carreño who had fewer problems in his debut against Italian Luca Nardi (6-2, 6-1).

Two weeks after being eliminated in the round of 16 at Wimbledon against the Italian Jannick Sinner, the Murcian returned to action on the German clay court where he started as first seed and where his first rival was a player who until 2021 played under Spanish nationality.

And this one, invited by the organizers, showed enough resistance and was able to put up a fight during the almost two and a half hours that the match lasted, except in the second set, the only one in which the one from El Palmar was able to clearly command.

Alcaraz was not able to take advantage of his first three break balls at 2-2 and he paid dearly because Kuhn broke his next serve and did not waste the advantage to close the first set. The Spaniard’s reaction was not long in coming and he forced the third and final set in a second round where he was never disturbed.

But the German knew how to recover and return to the match for a third set where the options of both to the rest were in the first games, especially a 15-40 for the first favorite with 2-2. From there, a lot of equality and ended up deciding the ‘tie-break’ for the Murcian (7/3).

For his part, the Asturian Pablo Carrenofourth-seeded, encountered fewer problems in his debut against Italian Luca Nardi, classified from the previous one and who he got rid of with authority 6-2, 6-1 in just over an hour.


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