Carlos Alcaraz, 22 years and world No. 2, is a fixed in the finals. Seventh consecutive tournament in which it arrives on the last day. It will take a path or another, regardless of what happens during the days, find the method to shoot the title.
Champion in Montecarlo, Rome, Roland Garros and Queen's, finalist at Godó and Wimbledon. A journey preceded by the trophy that raised in Rotterdam. He goes for his sixth trophy of this campaign, in which he has won 53 of 59 meetings, adding to his favor the last sixteen played in the Masters 1000 category.
There is only one rival to his discharge, the Italian Jannik Sinner. They took a long vacation, returned to the masters 1000 ATP of Cincinnati to maintain their hegemony. On Monday, at 9 at night, they will play their classic fourteenth, with 8-5 for the Spanish, which dominates 2-1 so far this campaign and 5-2 on a hard court.
Summit appointment just before the US Open, with an incidence to know if Alcaraz arrives in New York with options for being a world number one or not. He needs to dethrone in Cincinnati to Sinner, undefeated in 26 clashes on a hard track, although his last executioner was, of course, the Murcian, in October 2024, in the Beijing final.
Alcaraz had to handle a semifinal injured with the German Alexander Zverev28 years and world No. 3, to qualify, 6-4 and 6-3 in one hour and 45 minutes between game and various incidents.
The most accused and evident, the agony in which Zverev entered beginning the second set. As it happened last night against Ben Shelton. It was even afraid that he could not arrive on time for the semifinal. He did it and did not retire, although he wandered like a zombie. He lost the last 16 points, four games in which he did not compete despite having been treated by the doctor and the physiotherapist, who treated his maltrecha back.
A person from the public had to be treated and evacuated in the fourth game of a game that had started late for a show. 11 -minute break through the health emergency. In the resumption, with a marker 1-2, 0-30, a key moment, since Alcaraz raised a 0-40, three breaks of breakage, with a lot of magic.
It was a shuttle towards a show, a few minutes of Alcaraz fantasy, which ended the initial set with 9 aces, a brutal deployment of resources and power.
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Grogui left Zverev, who gave the last breath losing his serve for 1-1 in the second set, in a game in which Alcaraz made four fouls. A very rare parenthesis, prior to the collapse of Zverev. He gave anguish to see him suffer so much, on the edge of fainting.
The strongest survived in the Cincinnati oven, on a very fast track that causes many mistakes, it induces to dirty sensations even playing well. Alcaraz equaled his record with Zverev, 6-6, Sinner ended the dream of revelation, the Frenchman Terence atmane7-6 (4) y 6-2.
