Alcaraz had two match points on his storage in the tiebreak of the second set, but made a double error on one of them and eventually lost the set after 1 hour and 41 minutes of tennis.
Then he had to come back from a break backlog in the decisive third set, did that and eventually won the game relieved.
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The competition took place 11 days after the epic final of Roland Garros, where Alcaraz saved three match points, before being a legendary way back to beat Jannik Sinner and to keep his title on the French gravel.
What did Carlos Alcaraz say afterwards?
The 22-year-old wrote: “3 hours and 30 minutes … did we play on Gravel?” Apart from the camera lens, his victory over Munar. “There were times when I was very difficult and physically difficult,” said Alcaraz. “I just kept fighting. I don’t think I gave up.”
And: “I was mentally out, but I kept fighting and trying to play the points and play my best points of the first set.”
Two-time Wimbledon defender Alcaraz takes on the last four against the strongly serving American Reilly Opelka or the French Arthur Rindernech.
Defending champion Sinner eliminated early on Gras Halle
Sinner was therefore eliminated in the second round of the grass tournament in Halle, Germany. The number 1 in the world was surprised by the Kazakh Aleksandr Bublik. He went down in three sets after more than two hours: 6-3 3-6 4-6.
Sinner was a defender in Halle. He only suffered his third defeat of this year. The Italian previously lost the final of Roland Garros and the final of the Masters in Rome, both times of Alcaraz.
Gauff under the first match after winning Roland Garros
Coco Gauff has lost her first game after winning Roland Garros. The American number 2 in the world had to recognize her superior in the Chinese Wang Xinyu at the Berlin grass tournament. Wang won in two sets: 6-3 6-3.
Gauff won the Grandslam tournament in Paris twelve days ago. She defeated the Wit-Russian Aryna Sabalenka, the number 1 in the world on gravel in the final.
Gauff did not have an answer to the game of the Chinese number 49 in the world on Berlin’s grass, which in 75 minutes with the American two -time grand slam winner.
Sabalenka dealt better with the transition from gravel to grass. In Berlin she defeated the Swiss Rebeka Masarova in two sets: 6-2 7-6 (6) and qualified for the quarterfinals.