Regular administration for the Spaniard against the winner of the Next Gen Finals 2023: 6-4 6-4 and 26th victory in 27 games. Now the blue, which in the only previous one (in Doha) forced him to the third set
Carlos Alcaraz flies to Cincinnati’s ATP 1000 round of 16, where a very interesting meeting with our Luca Nardi will be staged, a player who when he enters the scoreboard at Lucky Loser does faville. In Indian Wells in 2024 the Pesaro eliminated Novak Djokovic, now who knows what he does not want to repeat himself against the number 2 in the world. Between the two a single precedent, in Doha this year: he won the Iberian but the blue managed to tear him a set.
A good Medjedovic in front
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Alcaraz in his third round meeting eliminated the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic (6-4 6-4 The final score), born in 2003 and winner of the Next Gen Finals 2023, one of which we speak a great good but that he has not yet exploded at very high levels (just think that he and Alcaraz are the same age). The Serbian did what he was able to, against the Spaniard, but this evening the five -time Slam winner had little desire to waste time, after the performance certainly not positive at the debut of Cincinnati (where he made final in 2023) against Dzumhur, beaten only in three sets.
The match
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First set where Alcaraz played well, constant but without excessive peaks. Unusually robust to the service, the Spaniard, with no break ball granted to the opponent. Surgical, Carlos, when only an opportunity was enough for him to snatch the joke in Medjedovic and serenely get involved in 6-4 with which he closed the first partial. In the second set, the script seemed to reflect the first, with Alcaraz in the lead of a break after the fifth game, but the usual “black hole” of the Spaniard arrives immediately afterwards, with the Serbian who tears at the sixth game, the service at the n.2 of the world, for the first (and unique) aimed in the meeting. Not bad, given that in the seventh game, Alcaraz Brekka again Medjedovic, and is the decisive one. Double 6-4 in an hour and 35 minutes and for Carlitos it is the 26th victory in the last 27 meetings, with the only, bloody defeat (for him) in the final in Wimbledon. Obviously, against Jannik Sinner.
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