[Trending News] Alcaraz surpasses Nardi and gives no option to youth

By age, Carlos Alcaraz is not a veteran, but the 21 -year -old Spanish already exercises as such in the circuit. In the midst of the increasingly predominant narrative on a generation of young promises that aims to dominate tennis, the champion of four Grand Slams, which this Tuesday celebrated the fifth anniversary of his first ATP victory, is at the moment the capo. Alcaraz has never lost against a younger player than him, and this streak extended this Wednesday by beating in the round of 16 of the Doha Nardi tournament 6-1, 4-6 and 6-3 in 1h52 in a match in which, again, he had to awaken from a disconnection that cost him the second set. Carlitos will fight this Thursday (not before 15:30, m+) for a semifinal position In front of Jiri Leheckka, 23 years old and 25th World, after the Czech Barriese to Fabian Marozsan (6-4 and 6-2).

It is true that it is difficult to find players in the elite of tennis that are younger than Alcaraz, but the Murcia tells the five games in which he has worked as 'veteran' for victories. JUCHENG SHANG (20 years) per double, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (21) and Mark Lajal (21) previously succumbed to Spanish, which this Wednesday was once again when defeating Luca Nardi without complications, Luca Nardi, three months younger than Carlitos and 85º World. It was the first time that Alcaraz was measured at a professional level with Italian, although both know each other very well as they are of the same generation and have shared a multitude of children's tournaments. Little by little, the João Fonseca, Jakub Mensik, Learner Tien and Company, are arriving, And these have not yet faced each other Charlybut for now there is no young man capable of discussing that of El Palmar.

Nardi went to meet the threat of having in his file the fourth biggest surprise in history, at least by ranking difference: in the past Indian Wells, when it was 123º of the world, he gave the bell to impose himself on Novak Djokovic, leader of the leader of the circuit at that time. But the Italian, another product of a factory that lately does not stop getting great players, something stagnant has been left, especially for a right that is not up to its great setback and that it lasts too much, although it has quality flashes And he showed them at times. Alcaraz did not want to know anything about scares and his departure to the meeting was a blow on the authority table: he won the first 10 points, broke the serve of his rival in three of the first four games (in the only one in which he did not He missed three break balls) and tied the first set in just over half an hour.

If after its premiere at the Khalifa International Tennis against Cilic, he said that this game was “to survive”, this time Alcaraz raised his tennis and enjoyed and enjoyed a stadium crowded by 7,000 souls (including Roberto Bautista, present in a box after Its elimination yesterday), although all this stopped in the second set. He was opened by the Murcian at the same level as the first and achieved a break that put 4-1 and stroking the victory, but another of those disconnections came on which Carlos works so much with his team. He began to fail (14 errors not forced in the set), Nardi took his nerves from the beginning and believed it so much that he achieved five games in a row to force the third manga. “He simply played better there, He made some good points and it seems that he started playing as number one in the world. I felt that I couldn't do anything, I tried to be there, probably my energy went down a little. But he won it, ”the Spanish analyzed.

He served the scare to awaken Alcaraz, who in the third set recovered the joy in his game and the show. It was that of El Palmar, on firewho was responsible for putting the heat at some days cold in Qatar. He achieved an early break, placed again with the 4-1 that had wasted a few minutes before, but this time he did not escape. He celebrated it with rage, how could it be otherwise. “More than the tennis level, it was a great mental level, I was very strong and I tried to show him that he was there, shouting 'we are going' to cheer me up and recover good energy. In the third I have played a good tennis, but I am more proud of the energy level, ”he valued. Impeccable with the serve, incisive in the climbs to the network and with the right as a pylon hammer, it already adds seven consecutive wins (its balance so far this season is 11-1). In addition, in ATP 500 his right -wing streak amounts to 12, with titles in Beijing and Rotterdam. He approaches another in Doha, where in less than 24 hours he will fight in front of Jiri Leheckka for a semifinal position. Spanish and Czech have only previously faced once, in Queen's 2023 with a bulky triumph of Carlitos (6-3 and 6-2), who remains the scourge of youth.

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