MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz qualified for the first time for the quarterfinals of the Paris-Bercy tournament, the last Masters 1,000 of the season, after defeating with authority, but also with some fright, this Thursday the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in two sets 6-1, 6-3.
The Murcian advanced one more round in the Parisian event after a match that he dominated with enough solvency until a small short circuit when he had the second set on track and from which he knew how to calmly leave to meet the winner of the duel between the Russian Andrey Rublev and the Danish Holger Rune.
After a solvent encounter, but without excessive brilliance in his debut against the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, the player from El Palmar came out like a cyclone on the track to run over a Dimitrov, overwhelmed except at the end of the clash that lasted less than an hour and a quarter.
Alcaraz did not give the left-handed options and in less than half an hour he had already closed the first set after breaking his rival’s first two services and barely giving concessions with his service. A third break gave him the set against a soulless and erratic Dimitrov who also did not give the impression of wanting to fight in the second.
The number one in the world did not lower his pace or the level of his tennis and, despite facing his first break ball, he was seen again with a comfortable 3-0 start, at which point he threatened to change the script that seemed to have already planned.
Dimitrov ‘returned’ to the court, improved and managed to finally break his rival’s serve to equalize the match again to the delight of the spectators present, eager to see some more tennis. Alcaraz entered a small ‘black hole’, from which he had to get out in time because the Bulgarian showed up with a threatening 15-40.
The young Murcian tennis player saved that delicate moment thanks to an innocent mistake by his rival and a new example of his mastery in the vicinity of the net, he settled down again and in the next game he pressed to get an already key ‘break’.