Carlos Alcaraz, current number 3 in the world, debuted with Victoria, 7-6 (3), 3-6 and 6-1, before the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp (84), in the first round of Rotterdam ATP 500; and the winner of the duel between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and the Italian Andrea Vavassori will be measured in the round of 16.
Alcaraz thus adds his third victory against the Dutch on the particular face to face (3-1), although in the last duel they go from Zandschulp eliminated the Palmar in the second round of the last Open of the United Statesin three sets (6-1, 7-5, 6-4).
In addition, Wageningen’s was the one who beat Nadal at the last Balearic meeting in his race in the final among the Davis Cup in Malaga for a double 4-6 in the quarterfinals that crossed Spain already Netherlands.
The Murcian The meeting began with an aggressive but precipitated gamewith excess risk from the track bottom and abusing the volley, which led him to lose the service in the third game, and forced him to trace the rest of the set.
In front he had a Dutch giant with very clear ideas: to rely on his setback to get out of the trouble and ‘crushed’ with the right the balls to the rival’s halfway, a patient wall and without fissures that awaited Carlos’s failures.
The rupture of Van de Zandschulp to the Murcian in the fifth game seemed definitive for the set, however Alcaraz replied and took the rival to Tie-Break, where he won 7-3 comfortably.
The second set began with fright for the palmar, that he had to save two breakfast balls before a slightly more aggressive and very involved in track.
Van de Zandschulp ended up breaking the Alcaraz service, again in the fifth game, in the face of the despair of Spanish, who saw as little by little his rival was eating ground and did not give up his serve.
Always to tow, The Murcian tried to return to the scoreboardbut unlike the first set, the Dutch was more whole with his serve and dissipated any hope of Carlos’s comeback with a final 6-3.
The manga for the tiebreaker could not start better for Alcaraz, than mentally and more successful with the right began sending 3-0 in the score against a Van de Zandschulp without solutions or reaction.
The rhythm of the world number three had risen considerablyespecially in the right -wing duel in which he is always so comfortable, in addition to improving his benefits to the service.
With 4-1 in favor, the Spanish managed to break the Dutch and definitely kill the game, who only had an owner in a third set that ended 6-1 and a match that lasted 2 hours and 27 minutes.
In the Spanish Duel of Eighth Finals, the 44 of the world Pedro Martínez-6-3 and 6-2- to Roberto Bautista (52) was imposed and will face the winner of the encounter between the Danish Holger Rune (14 of the world) and the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (34).
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