Carlos Alcaraz gives us one last dance against Rafa NadaL. It will be this Thursday afternoon. The two Spanish tennis players They will meet in the Six Kings Slam, the millionaires tournament invented in Saudi Arabia. And it will be like that because Alcaraz beat, quickly and with great tennis, Holger Rune (6-4 and 6-2). The Spanish tennis player destroyed the Dane in a scene almost like a Riyadh film, with light shows and lots of economic ostentation.
Alcaraz and Nadal will meet this Thursday during which it will be the last duel between them. There won’t be any more. The two will meet again in a month and a half in Malaga, in the Davis Cup the most special in the history of this country (due to Nadal’s retirement), but it will be to share a team, to share the passion and the representation of Spain. There they will be together, this Thursday they will face each other in Arabia.
In this exhibition tournament, Alcaraz destroys a Rune that was sunk in the game by a slide. Sometimes sports are decided by very small details that seem unimportant, but they are. This mistake ended up being the key to the match. As if this unlucky gesture had any significance for the Dane, he suddenly collapsed, almost without explanation. After being sure of the serve, he lost it twice in a row, losing the first set and being led from the first moment of the second set. And the duel in Arabia had even begun.
A Rune has fallen who until then had been infallible on his serve and who suffered Alcaraz’s break on the point after this slip. This was a key moment for Carlos, as he later served to win. And that’s what he did. Alcaraz shot directly without hesitationgot the first set result 6-4 and that score continued with a devastating start to the second set.
From a confident Rune serving, leaving no options for Alcaraz beyond a break point not exploited by the Spaniard in the first game of the match, he moved to a completely overwhelmed Rune, overwhelmed by the Spaniard, who tickled the Dane. Rune suffered a lotlost her first serve in the second set and won the next in agonizing fashion.
Alcaraz already saw that he had won this first match in Arabia when he invented a superb return of service from Rune. It was 1-4 and it was confirmation of the cyclone that reigned on the Riyadh court, where they enjoyed the tennis of a Carlitos who loved it in this tournament. Six Kings Slam.
After continuing without dropping a single serve, Alcaraz won the second set on the third match point he had (6-2), easily overcame a sunken Rune in the second set and gives Spain, tennis and world sport one last duel against Nadala last dance between the past of Spanish and international tennis and its heir. A luxury for sports fans.
