Carlos Alcaraz It is already in the round of 16 of the US Open after overcoming the Italian, born in Argentina, Darderi without discussion, but this time differently from the previous two rounds. Not on the score Mediated the second set the Spanish asked for the presence of the physiotherapist.
There was a moment of tension on the bench of El Palmar’s tennis player. Your personal physio Juanjo Moreno, prepared a pain pill. Alcaraz had to wait for the next two games to reach the break and that could be treated. The problem began with the seventh game of that partial, in which Carlos granted the first break so far from the tournament after failing a right to the network. Made a rare movementfolding his leg, but at that time he did not give importance. He sat in his chair and kept playing. He had to subtract him and there he did tell the referee that if he could ask for medical time. With that bad feeling, he lost that game, although he fought it (4-4), and managed to take the next (5-4) because he has resources everywhere.
The Murcian told the physiotherapist that after a serve in that seventh game, when he fell, He noticed a puncture on the right kneethrough the patellar tendon area, and that bothered him. The professional told him that he could have his thigh and offered him to sell it to calm the tension, but the Spanish replied that he preferred to play released, that he is not accustomed. He made a download massage, and the track again.
The number two of the world had to subtract to win the set, and the reaction was surprising. A first -winning blow and an exchange at a spectacular pace, completely dislodged to Darderi, who did not understand what was happening. Got tense and gave the partial with a double foulafter it seemed to have released minutes before. He had triggered the Arthur Ashe track once … but it was to make a video and immortalize the moment. This time he had to compete and Carlos’s problems seemed to affect him more than Spanish himself.
He no longer returned to the Darderi party, which accumulated one error after another and could not force the world number two to see what was happening. “Head in the movements,” he said Juan Carlos Ferrero to Alcarazwhich was adding games consecutively until he signed his second “Rosco” in New York. The meeting was controlled and the important thing began to be not forced. The game ended by taking out his fist in the direction of his team and then, in the interview on foot of the track, he confessed that he was not “worried” about what happened, that he had noticed that something was not going well and that is why he decided to ask the physio.
His next opponent will be the French Rinderknech, with whom he has a 3-0 in the face to face, but has always made it difficult.