Five years and one day after his first professional game, Alcaraz is already in the quarterfinals of the Doha tournament. It exceeded Luca Nardi in the round of 16, 4-6 and 6-3 in an hour and 51 minutes. The Italian from the previous one was subjected by the tennis of Carlitos despite the dismissal of the second set. In Cuartos, the Czech Leheckka expects, the one who was Nadal’s executioner in his last game at the Mutua Madrid Open.
Carlitos is at that level at which his ball goes at an uncontrollable speed for many rivals. If to that feeling with the ball the patience and regularity that is showing in Doha is added … matches leave like the one that had to suffer from Nardi. Alcaraz accumulated the first ten points of the game, made three breaks in the first set, dominated from the bottom of the track at will and each ball that left his racket to pupa to his fellow Fifth. Both are from 2003, the Spanish three months older, but the Tennis of the Italian is light years from the one shows the Murcian. For many minutes of the game it seemed that they played different sports. There were rights, setbacks, left … Alcaraz’s blow cocktail martyred the world number 85.
Despite everything he tried to oppose resistance at the beginning of the second set. He endured a little more, just to see some good exchange. But in front he had the most resounding version of Carlitos. Centered, without ups and downs, finding winning blows when looking for them, the break came in the fourth game. Nardi resorted to a tennis of another era with very high and deep balls … and the good thing is that it worked. Suddenly Alcaraz’s tennis vanished. The Italian matched the “break”, he believed and one of those downs that still affects Carlitos. Nardi added five games in a row and what was a walk resulted in the third set. Alcaraz returned and the Italian had to assume his inferiority.