Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz is in the last 16 after winning 7-5, 4-6 and 6- sets this Wednesday morning in Cincinnati (United States), the seventh Masters 1000 of the season, played on hard court. 3 to Jordan Thompson of Australia.
Thompson, who was classified from the previous stage and ranked number 55 in the world, met with Murcian, who was seeded in this competition, for the first time in his career. The 2 hours and 48 minutes made things difficult for him as he wasn’t comfortable with the Alcaraz forehand and first serve.
In this context Murcian missed four crushing balls accused him of abandoning his serve in the third game (1-2) and the sixth (2-4). Forced to come back, he quickly returned the time-out to Thompson despite needing five chances to make it (3-4).
Encouraged by this situation, the man from El Palmar broke again in the eleventh round (6-5) and consolidated his lead. Right next to closing the boot set in 1 hour and 24 minutes. However, Alcaraz did not flow early in the second set and were tight on their serve, saving a ‘breaking’ point in the fourth set (2-2) but giving up in the sixth set (2-4).
Effectively but with a few luxuries, Thompson increased his lead (2-5) in the second set, which he won 4-6 despite the recent confusion (4-5). The Palma man’s attempt to react crystallized at the start of the third set. Breaking your opponent in the first gameAlcaraz sped toward victory before accepting any more time-out options.
Prowl prowled the penalty in game seven, where ‘Australia’ saved two ‘break’ points (4-3) and signed ninth (6-3) and added 50 wins in 2023 this year. . The opponent will be the winner of the duel between the Frenchman Ugo Humbert and the American Tommy Paul, the last executioner of Alcaraz, at the Masters 1000 in Toronto.