Alcaraz is in the quarterfinals of the US Open: Ko Rinderkneck in three sets

Carlos Alcaraz advances without obstacles and without having still lost a set arrives in the quarterfinals of the US Open by beating for the fourth time out of four with the score of 7-6 (3) 6-4 6-4 the French Arthur Rinderknech, n.81 of the world, who at 30 years old felt the intoxication of his first eighth in a slam in a Slam. The Spaniard, who by now traditionally celebrated success by mimicking a golf blow to pay homage to his friend Mcilroy in the stands, becomes the youngest player ever to conquer 13 quarters of finals in the majors (after Becker) and for the first time in his career he reaches the quarterfinals in all Slam in the same season. Now the Czech Lehecka awaits him, who beat Mannarino, and with whom he is ahead 2-1 in the previous ones, even if he lost the only one on the cement, in February in Doha.

The match

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The first set is completely dominated by the services: both players lose just one point with the first and only Alcaraz manages in a game to hoist up to 40 equal: and every way you do not see break balls. However, the passenger of straight behind the back with which the Spaniard crosses the fourth game is wonderful. Obviously in these conditions the tie-break represents the statistically most obvious conclusion: Alcaraz immediately grants the 2-0 minibreak with a volée on the net, but from that moment he climbs into the chair, skiing two great passers-by of the great level and crosses the partial. The disadvantage, at least at the beginning of the second set, does not unload the French beliefs, which continues to serve with exceptional profit, but as soon as the percentage drops, and it happens in the sixth game, Alcaraz the rooms above procuring the first two break balls of the match: the first is enough for him, concretized by a fabulous winner of the straight. Of course, although surgical in the conquest of the points that count, Carlitos is not in a sparkling version, and in the game following in turn it grants two break balls to the opponent, sterilized with the usual winning straight after a solid before and with a winning service; Just enough to slide quietly towards the conquest of the second partial. In any case, Rinderknech has the merit of staying inside the game, but he cannot stem the class of the number two in the world when he decides to push on the accelerator: it happens in the ninth game, with three phenomenal responses and above all a dried -up passer -by to run his hands on a French Veronica: it is the break that seals the qualification in the Quarti del Murciano.