For the tennis professional Carlos Alcaraz, who is used to success, things are currently not going as well as usual.
The world number two from Spain surprisingly had to say goodbye in the round of 16 at the Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai on Wednesday. Alcaraz lost to Vienna starter Grigor Dimitrow from Bulgaria 7:5.2:6.4:6. For Dimitrow it was the first victory in the fourth meeting with the Wimbledon winner, as the APA reports.
Alcaraz has not won a tournament since the aforementioned title in the grass “Mecca”. At the 1000 tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati he failed in the quarter-finals and the final, at the US Open before the final duel with Novak Djokovic, which everyone expected, he failed in the semi-finals against Daniil Medvedev and the previous week in the Beijing semi-finals.
Dimitrov “knew what to do”
“I knew what I had to do,” said Dimitrov. “I knew I had to put constant pressure on him. He doesn’t like being on the back foot, I tried to put him in uncomfortable situations,” he revealed. The world number 19. Dimitrow now meets Nicolas Jarry (CHI-22). He has not won a tournament since the title at the 2017 ATP Finals.
Of the eight top ten players in the table, only Andrej Rublew (6) is still in the competition. The Russian prevailed against Sebastian Ofner’s second-round defeater, the American Tommy Paul, 7:5.7:5. (APA)
2023-10-11 15:57:01
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