With one Beautiful white and black horizontal striped t -shirt with blue trim, Alcaraz debuted in Roland Garros the day after tribute to Rafa. The champion was very reliable before a player, Zeppieriwhich offered much more tennis than its Rankins, the 310 of the world. Carlitos won 6-3, 6-4 and 6-2 in one hour and 56 minutes.
In second round, on Wednesday 28, the Hungarian Marozsan awaits him that three sets (6-2, 6-3 and 7-6) of another Italian, Nardi. There are two precedents: in the third in Rome in 2023 he won the magiar in two sets and last year in the fourth round of Indian Wells the Spaniard did.
For the classics, a premiere in the Philippe Chatrier would have had more charm, with the license plate to Nadal and before Kei Nishikori. The central track, the Japanese who was number four in the world and who with 35 years fight to remain active, but … the champion premiered in the Suzanne Lenglen and did so before an Italian who competed with a good repertoire of blows. Enough to be the first round of a “Grand Slam”. Zeppieri took the game as it should to be the 310 of the world.
Opposite was Carlitos so he had to be daring, enjoy and as much as possible to forget the superiority of the opposite racket. His three victories in the previous one were sufficient filming for Alcaraz to have to be used at a notable level.
The notice that the Italian was serious in the first game with two occasions of breakage. It was the sign that the Murcian needed to activate and sign a first set, a party in general, remarkable. “Loading, little by little,” said Juan Carlos Ferrero. And Carlitos paid attention to him. He showed that he is impeccable with dizzying displacements. He released a winning right at 180 kilometers per hour. He resolved on the network with a very high effectiveness (9/10) and a break was enough to reduce Zeppieri’s spirits.
Everything that happened in the game was at the expense of the level that Carlitos offered and his tennis did not have the ups and downs that he showed in the initial rounds of Barcelona or Rome. It was quite uniform, he never got out of seven. And if at that level add any of the usual details, the party did not seem a first standard round of a “major”. Because the Italian followed his own. He was responded, daring, answered from the bottom of the track and offering a very estimated catalog to be in the depths of the ranking.
Alcaraz’s “break” in the second partial arrived in the seventh game. The perfect premiere pack also included not hurry. And there weren’t. In the third set, a break in the second game, saved the third breakfast ball that the Italian had and took off towards the second round.