BarcelonaThe generation of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner has been deserved to be considered the successor of the historic generation of Roger Federar (retired in 2022), Rafa Nadal (retired in 2024) and Novak Djokovic. The Serbian is the only one who is still reluctant to cease to be present to become history. The results give it some support as your body accumulates complaints and renegs. But Alcaraz and Sinner have no mercy on professionals. The Murcian tennis player defeated Djokovic by 4-6, 6-7 (4) and 2-6 in 2 hours and 23 minutes to buy a ticket for the final of the US Open without the need to spend his lethal bullet against the winner of 24 Grand Slams: extend the time.
The party, beyond the huge tenistic qualities of both, was a matter of youth against old age. 22 years against 38. A game for the best of five sets played early in the afternoon of a day of the end of summer in New York can become a torture for someone who needs to savor the triumph long before the party’s lights open, when the most likely is that everything is defeated. Alcaraz, aware of this fear of Djokovic, scared him by achieving a break When some had not yet turned on television. The rest of the first set was a script written by someone who does not believe in dramatic turns. 4-6 for Alcaraz to call Djokovic that if he wanted another Grand Slam end he only had to cling to physical suffering.
But the Serbian, old cat, did the same as the young man to start the second set: break. The difference is that when Djokovic had in Alcaraz in his weakest time in the tournament, with a 3-0, he allowed him to rise from the mud and the set was tied. The Murcian ended up winning a tie break Of long and precise points in which the physical shortcomings of a Djokovic were seen, who, when the adventure is intense at this twilight moment of his career, his legs go to the rhythm of a Ford Fiesta and his mind to that of a Porsche Cayenne. The frustration does the rest.
Contentor of this excitement of his opponent, Alcaraz was presented to the third set. The fruit was ripe. The Murcian had not lost any set in this Open and will be presented in the final of Sunday in the same circumstances: without losing any. It was of no use that Arthur Ashe audience encouraged Djokovic as if he were an American due to the desire to obtain a longer reward in exchange for his entry. The passage of time is the largest cruelty in this world and Alcaraz was the most inhuman executioner.
