The well-known former Russian tennis player, former world number six racket and Australian Open doubles semi-finalist, commented to socialbites.ca that he was surprised by the result of the match and the quarter-final match. Germany’s Alexander Zverev defeated Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open.
“To be honest, I was surprised by the game. I was surprised that Alcaraz wanted to put an end to the jokes so quickly. I played with a shot and there were a lot of mistakes. On the contrary, I noticed that Alcaraz should try to hold the ball a little longer and play positionally, from any position so that the opponent does not reach out.” I thought he should not rush to invest. I think Alcaraz moved better than Zverev and he should have had the advantage. So I was very surprised by the score of 6:1, 6:3, 5:3. And the 5:4 play of the match surprised me “surprise. And then Zverev lost the set with the match in his pocket. But he continued. A not very clear match in the sense that it was not a stable level. In my opinion, the first two quarter-finals were of better quality because there were no such failures during the matches,” says Olkhovsky.
Zverev beat world number two Alcaraz in four sets: 6:1, 6:3, 6:7(2), 6:4. In the semi-finals, he will play against the world’s third-ranked player, Russian Daniil Medvedev.
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