Unstoppable Carlos Alcaraz. He already has twelve consecutive victories. The Spanish tennis player beat the Frenchman this Tuesday Gael My son (6-4, 7-5) in the round of 16 Shanghai Masters 1000. It was a rematch for their match Cincinnatiduring the Murcian’s debut in the tournament which the Frenchman won. And the revenge was consummated.
Monfils could not do much against this Alcaraz, very different from the one he had met in August and who would later suffer another fall in the WE. open. Renovated, as seen in Beijingwhere he won the title, this Carlitos is very difficult to beat and he showed it to the 38 year old Frenchman.
One more step towards the final. Alcaraz continues to advance through the rounds in Shanghai, which hosts the penultimate Masters 1,000 of the season, and is already in the quarterfinals. The American will be measured Tommy Paul or Czech Thomas Machacwho also compete throughout the morning of this Wednesday.
Monfils’ level continues to surprise at his age. In the first set, he took on Alcaraz, winning almost all of his easy serves and giving the Spaniard the ball-shaped first stone. to break. She was saved by Carlitos, who then made the score 3-3. And when it was necessary to bite, the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero he bit.
The Spaniard pressed Monfils’ serve with 4-4. It was time. Alcaraz took the lead with 40-15 in favor, two break points, and on the second he finished first to break of the match and only one from the initial round. On his next serve, Carlos took a 40-0 lead and closed the match on the second set point. 37 minutes full of intensity, that’s what gave the heat.
With the game in progress, it was necessary to close it. Alcaraz feels good physically, and that showed from the start of this second set. Monfils, who now has nothing to lose against a rival who, according to him, had a “99% chance” of beating him, pushed to give everything in long exchanges and to score a few points. It didn’t matter, it wasn’t enough against a confident Carlos with everything under control.
Monfils resisted a little more than in the previous set, bringing the score to 5-5. This was the turning point. Alcaraz sent two points in a match that the Frenchman, serving, finished with 0-40. In the tie-break, Carlos forgave two break points and it was the third that he broke to give himself the victory. He did not fail on his serve and settled the match with a 7-5 in the second and final set. The Spanish sequence does not stop; Carlitos wants more.
