Alcaraz does not stop: he wins at the debut in Barcelona, ​​Ko Quinn

The positive strip of Carlos Alcaraz continues. After the five consecutive victories, which led him to conquer Title 1000 in Montecarlo, the Spanish tennis player achieves sixth success: in Barcelona, ​​on the field named after Rafa Nadal. The number two of the world beats, not without effort, at the debut of the ATP 500 Catalano Ethan Quinn, number 126 from qualifying, with the result of 6-2 7-6 in an hour and 46 minutes of play. In the next round Carlos, who leads the scoreboard, will face the Serbian Laslo Djere.

The match

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An initial domain of Carlitosstill without his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, in his box. In the first set it grants five break balls in total, but saves them all. Quinn, on the other hand, goes into difficulty when the first series head of the scoreboard pushes in response and begins to command the exchange. With 5 winners and 12 unformed errors, the Spaniard then closes the first set 6-2. In the second Alcaraz he continues 1-0 with Break, Quinn replies and thanks to a powerful straight he makes a partial of three consecutive games. Joy who will be ephemeral for the young American, who in the second set takes off the tension of playing against a four -time Slam champion. Carlos hits him but the fatigue of the Spaniard after a complex week continues until 5-5. Then Alcaraz snatches the service, serves for the set, is wrong and the challenge goes to the tie-break. Quinn does not find the first one, but takes advantage of the fatigue of the Spaniard to get to set point. The Spaniard cancels him with an applause backhand passerby, earns match point and closes the first round practice with a splendid short ball.

Rudud ok

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The entry into the top 10 of Lorenzo Musetti is postponed to the paper, for now. At the debut in the 500 tournament in Barcelona, ​​the reigning champion Casper Ruud sweeps the Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4 6-3 in an hour and a half of matches. At the next round to wait for the Norwegian tennis player, who must win the tournament in Catalonia to remain among the top ten in the world, there is the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic.