Carlos Alcaraz exceeded without opposition to Serbian Hamad Medjedovic (world number 72) and advanced to the round of 16 Masters 1,000 Cincinnati where the Murcian tennis player is one of the great favorites to win it. It will be measured in the next round to Italian Nardi. A game with an extreme heat on the track where Carlos won in two sets with a double 6-4.
With a 6-4 on the first set and another 6-4 in the second, Carlos Alcaraz surpassed a Medjedovic With very serious tennis. The Serbian tennis player was also overcome by the great heat on the track. The Murcian will play the round of 16 against Nardi this Wednesday at a time to confirm.
En la P&G Center Court, Medjedovic He showed soon that he intended to be a rock with his services, hitting the ball hard and playing it several times with the second serve. The rest was only in a bit in the fourth game, but Alcaraz He dodged scares and in the seventh squeezed in front of the strategy without a leaf turn that followed his adversary.
At the fourth opportunity of 'Break', the Murcia advanced on the scoreboard thanks to a double lack of a Medjedovic that had flirted with fire until it was burned. Immediately, Alcaraz He consolidated his breakage and also did it with an 'ace' at the final point, on tracking a first manga that was finally awarded after 47 minutes.
The Serbian requested medical attention in the rest prior to the second set, but more to deal with the intense heat than for some concrete pain. Between that environment charged by meteorology and that Medjedovic He ignored long balls, the match had barely pace and a 'break' of Alcaraz in the fifth game (3-2) seemed to leave everything seen for sentence.
However, the Balkan brought arrests to momentarily match the marker after a good rest for the advantage and a double lack of his opponent just next. Given that, and despite going 40-15 down, Alcaraz He balanced and returned the rupture (4-3) to a Medjedovic without resources to get up against the number 2 of the ATP ranking.
The Palmar player consolidated his rent (5-3), later reserved forces to the rest (5-4) and sealed the victory as soon as he could with his service after an hour and 35 minutes. In the next round of this contest, Alcaraz will face the Italian Luca Nardi, which solved his commitment to sixteen for the withdrawal of the Czech Jakub Mensik.
