Tennis | ATP 250 from Umag
The Italian goes back to the Murcian, fourth best in the world as of today, in the final of the ATP 250 in Umag (6-7, 6-1 and 6-1)
“I have nightmares with Italian players,” Carlos Alcaraz said on Friday after defeating Argentine Fucundo Bagnis in the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 in Umag and meeting Zeppieri in the semifinals on Saturday. The bad dream did not have the Murcian before yesterday. It was yesterday, in the decisive match and against Sinner, who came up after losing in a tight first set (6-7) and overwhelmed the Murcian in the next two sets (6-1 and 6-1).
Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil, who was unable to retain the title he won last year, the first of his career, did not have his night and made more mistakes than usual. There was no revenge and the player from El Palmar conceded in less than a month the second defeat against his rival yesterday, against whom he also lowered his arms in the round of 16 at Wimbledon, on July 3.
Alcaraz, who was very close to becoming the player with the most titles and the most matches won of the season, looked like he was going to do it when he took the first set by a tight 7-6(5). It was a mirage. In the second set, with 1-0 against and 15-40 with his serve, the Italian saved six break points and took the game, which made him go into the game with renewed confidence and much more loose on the clay of the Croatian track.
change of course
The errors left Carlos without the break. His rival then came up when the situation had become uphill. Immediately afterwards, the tennis player from El Palmar was once again in a position to materialize the ‘break’ and equalize, but again he lost the option. It was a moral blow and from that moment the Murcian’s tennis was more erratic and Sinner went over his rival (1-6).
Jannik Sinner /
In the third set the Italian started with a blank serve, although luckily Alcaraz stopped the bleeding immediately (1-1). With 15-40 in the fourth game, Jannik went all out and made the ‘break’ (1-3). The mental battle at this point had already been won by the Italian, who overwhelmed Carlos until he put back a resounding 1-6. Two hours and 25 minutes later and after saving the nine ‘break points’ that he faced, the Italian sealed his victory. Alcaraz has lost to Italian players in his last three appearances, since last week he also lost to Lorenzo Musetti in the Hamburg ATP 500 final.
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Spanish tennis players have been in the ATP ranking above Alcaraz: Rafa Nadal, Moyá and Ferrero, his current coach, who came to occupy number 1; Corretja and Orantes, who reached second place, and Ferrer and Sergi Bruguera, third. -
Overtake Tsitsipas
The name of Carlos Alcaraz will come out today in fourth place in the ATP after passing through Umag. He has overtaken the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. -
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Alcaraz has won victories and only seven defeats this year, having won four titles in six finals played: the 1000 masters in Miami and Madrid and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona. -
Behind Nadal
The tennis player from El Palmar only has the Russian Daniil Medvedev (1st), the German Alexander Zverev (2nd) and Rafa Nadal (3rd) ahead of him in the ATP classification.
As the good loser that he is and always as a good athlete, Carlitos addressed his rival at the end of the match with these words: «Jannik [Sinner]This is the second time you beat me this year. I will find out how to defeat you. Great job, I wish you the best of luck for this season. It’s been a good week, it’s not the ending we wanted, but I have to keep working hard to win,” said the Murcian, who said goodbye to applause from the public.
The Italian, meanwhile, showed his happiness at the end of the game. “I am very happy, I had many unlucky moments this year, but I worked hard to be a better player and person, and I am happy to finally lift a title this year. I still have many things to improve, and now I must start my adaptation process for Montreal.
“Sinner, it’s the second time you’ve beaten me, but I’ll find out how to beat you this year,” Carlos told the transalpine
Alcaraz will also be at the Canadian Master 1000, who will later play in Cincinnati, both on hard courts, to finish preparing for the fourth and last Grand Slam of the season, the US Open, which will take place on the same type of surface on 29 May. from August to September 11 and in which he will try to improve his great performance in the 2021 edition, in which he reached the quarterfinals in his premiere on the New York slopes.
The player with the most finishes
The one from El Palmar, the tennis player with the most finals this year, fought for a title for the sixth time this year, with four wins (Rio, Miami, Barcelona and Madrid) and two defeats (Hamburg and Umag).
In addition, yesterday’s final was the 100th ATP match for the Murcian. Carlitos has really good numbers in his first hundred games at the highest level, 75 wins and 25 losses. This year, he has 41 wins and only 7 losses.
For his part, Jannik Sinner [número 10 del mundo], lifted yesterday the sixth ATP tournament of his career, the first on clay, and won his first title of the season. The 20-year-old Italian was contesting his first final on the circuit since Antwerp in October last year.
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