Carlos Alcaraz reaffirms the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the second time in a row. And he did it with an exhibition. escaped in 78 minutes Stefanos Tsitisipas imposed by 6-3 and 6-4. Only the Murcian tennis player gave the long-awaited scene where the two big favorites are fighting for the title.
Tsitsipas will leave Barcelona for the third time with the finalist prize in his bag. If Rafael Nadal was the winner in 2018 and 2021, this time the heir to the injured Balearic Islands knocked him out.
For tsitsipas Playing with the earth is like painting on a canvas. alcaraz this is a war. In this counterpoint, the final began with all the encouragement of a match between two tennis players of different styles, both of whom had powerful shots, ball speed and a variety of tactical resources to take down the opponent.
no opposition
But the reality was different. from the first moment alcaraz He entered the field knowing how to win the game. He said this in public the day before. To force the opposite of the Greeks was the goal. However, other surprises awaited him. As soon as Tsitsipas played short, he called the winner from the forehand and broke it with his specialty drop shot.
He won the first set 6 out of 7 (1-4 from the Greeks) in the decisive moments. T didn’t help.sitsipas be the first to break it (1-2). Alcaraz recovered the ‘time out’ in the next game (2-2) and took control with a second time-out (5-3), completing the first set in 39 minutes.
Nothing has changed in the second arm. Tsitsipas gave up his serve again (3-2), after an ingenious lob . The Greek tennis player had been roaming the court for a while before finding a formula to start the fight he promised on Saturday.
“I’m not afraid,” he assured. It didn’t matter. He never caught up with Alcaraz, who was beaten for the fourth time in a row. Not only that, it was the tenth final he lost in a 500 category tournament, the game didn’t flow as the Greeks wanted and Alcaraz was the winner at the RCT Barcelona center, receiving a prize of 477,795 euros. The second copy in the 70th edition of the Godó tournament.
Alcaraz adds his ninth title to his record with Umag (2021), Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and the United States Open (2023), third of the year after Buenos Aires and Indian Wells.
Tsitsipas reached the third final in Barcelona, just one behind Guillermo Vilas and David Ferrer.
battle for number 1
Alcaraz’s win at Barcelona places him behind #1 by 365 points (565), while Novak Djokovic continues with 7,240 points.
The Serbian tennis player will continue to lead for two more weeks, despite withdrawing from the Masters 1,000 in Madrid, where she won 360 points and Alcaraz 1,000 points. If the Murcian tennis player had made the Barcelona-Madrid pair, they would have been only 5 points behind number 1.
Alcaraz’s scrimmage to #1 could happen at the Masters 1,000 in Rome, where he didn’t play last year, with Djokovic defending 1,000 points as champion.