In London, on the Queen’s grass-courts, the Spanish champion Carlos Alcaraz definitively archived the painful defeat in the semifinals at the Roland Garros against Novak Djokovic. The cramps, accused during the match in Paris, did not appear yesterday in the match, which lasted two hours and thirty-seven, against the French Arthur Rinderknech.
To the Frenchman’s initial lead of a set, the number two in the world was able to react with great firmness, first equalizing the score, and then, in the third and final set, bringing home the match by winning the decisive tie break.
Alcaraz told: “It was my first match on grass. At the beginning it was difficult, on grass it’s never easy, but obviously I had to stay in the game. During the match I told myself that I would improve more and more to feel better on the pitch .
I need hours on the pitch, to play as much as possible. So it was nice to have such a tough match in the first round. There are no long matches on grass, it’s more a matter of serving and volleys. Rinderknech has a very good serve and volley, so physically it’s not as difficult as Roland Garros, like playing on clay.” The Spaniard will face the Czech Jiri Lehecka in the next round.
Outstanding numbers for Carlos Alcaraz The reigning champion at the US Open has once again demonstrated how the head can often play a fundamental role in tennis. Carlos is among the select few who possess a quality that only champions have, that of raising the level in the key moments of the matches and prevailing over the opponent in high tension situations.
This is demonstrated by his record in terms of tie-breaks in the final set. The Murcia-born player has found himself in this situation up to seven times in his professional career and has emerged victorious in all of them.
The 20-year-old then won 100% of the deciding tie-breaks for a match. A fact that demonstrates the incredible mentality of the predestined Iberian tennis player, who can boast for his very young age, in addition to the American slam, also four Masters 1000 (2 times Madrid, Miami, Indian Wells), as well as 5 other ATP titles, divided between 500 and 250.
