Carlos Alcaraz is a top player and as such it goes from less to more in the tournaments, especially in the most important ones. He decided with his team that he would not play any official tournament until the Australian Open.
It cost him the first round with Richard Gasquet, he played better in the second against Lorenzo Sonego and he definitely exploded this Saturday in his third match against Juncheng Shang.
The Murcian overcame the Chinese guest 6-1, 6-2, 1-0 and retired due to injury at 1 hour and 6 minutes.
I have been eating in a Spanish restaurant every day and I get my strength from there.
Carlos Alcaraz
Shang did not look like the tennis player who had reached the Hong Kong semifinals and he had earned one of the invitations to the main draw of the Open as he was considered one of the great promises of the Asian giant.
Only 14 points were scored in the first set, which only served to avoid a blushing donut. Alcaraz, to his own, He was heading straight towards the second week of the only ‘Grand Slam’ in which he had not reached the round of 16. He will do it on Monday before Miomir Kecmanovic20 years and 262 days old.
The El Palmar player is the twenty-second active player to reach the fourth round of the four majors. There are now eight times that he has surpassed the first three commitments in the majors, becoming the sixteenth Spaniard to reach that number and the fourth currently active. The other three are Rafael Nadal (54), Roberto Bautista (13) and Pablo Carreño (9).
Shang went out to the Rod Laver Arena to play without pressure, with a bandage on his right leg, but he over-braked. Wearing a gold earring and pendant, the left-hander did not disturb the Spaniard’s tennis at any time. Extra hours are paid for and Carlitos arrived fresh at the moment when the champion begins to be decided.
The tennis player from Beijing saw his executioner’s winning shots pass by. Alcaraz had never played an opponent younger than him in his previous 200 games as a professional. Juncheng, nicknamed Jerry because of the difficulty in pronouncing his nameI was paying for the hazing.
The closest Shang came to world number two was 1-1 in the first two sets. With rights at 168 kilometers per hour, Samuel López’s pupil shone in the middle of the sun.
At 4-1 in the second round, Shang got tired of suffering and stopped the agony by demanding the presence of the tournament’s physiotherapist. They removed the bandage and performed a massage.
The Village People’s YMCA was playing over the central public address system., the fans danced and Carlitos smiled with the naturalness of the chosen ones. He looked at his bench and specifically at his brother Álvaro, a lover of the subject.
The Chinese resumed the battle without bandages and without mobility. He brought out the white flag at 1-0 and 15-0 in the third set.
The eternal promise
Kecmanovic, Alcaraz’s opponent on Monday in the round of 16 after beating Tommy Paul with a rosco in the tiebreaker, was called to support his compatriot Novak Djokovic at the top of tennis. He got lost along the way, but he has time to find himself again at 24 years old. Number one in the junior world in 2016, he has lost the only precedent with the Murcian. He was in the quarterfinals of the Miami Masters 1000, in 2022.
“I’ve been eating in a Spanish restaurant every day and that’s where I get my strength,” said the winner of two major titles. He was referring to Cambio de Tercio, the gastronomy mecca in London, owned by Riojan Abel Lusa, who has moved to Melbourne for the two-week tournament.
The second favorite in the draw went to work for another hour in the gym and then took a dip in one of the indoor pools with the rest of the members of his team.
2024-01-20 05:27:38
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