The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz qualified this Wednesday for the quarterfinals of the Shanghai tournament (China), the eighth Masters 1000 of the season and which is played on hard courts, after beating the Frenchman Gael Monfils in two sets 6-4, 7-5 after almost an hour and a half of play. The player from Murcia continues with his good level in recent weeks and after winning the title against the Italian Jannik Sinner in the final in Beijing last week, he is already among the eight best in this event where he will now face the Czech Tomas Machac, who surprised the American Tommy Paul (3-6, 6-4, 6-3), to get into the semifinals and see another possible duel with the world number one. The one from El Palmar took revenge against Monfils for his defeat in August at the Cincinnati Masters 1000, where he also failed to control his nerves and ended up breaking his racket. But on this occasion, supported by a better state of mind due to his tennis, he knew how to have the calm to carry out a match against the Parisian who, as usual, left a lot of ‘show’ and which was decided in his favor due to details in the decisive games of each sleeve. Alcaraz tried to be very aggressive once again in his game and that led him to add many winners with his ‘drive’, 15 of the 22 that the statistics indicated, but more unforced errors (16), but he showed once again effectiveness on the net in a high-speed duel as is also tradition when these two players meet. The match started very similar to that of ‘Cincy’, with few concessions from the serves, although the level of tennis was much better than a couple of months ago. Even so, the Spanish tennis player was the first who had to suffer with his serve, raising a breaking point in the sixth game. And after winning only four points from the rest, he did not waste his opportunity at 4-4 to achieve the ‘break’ and then close the set with his serve. The scenario did not change much in the second quarter. The serves continued to rule over the remains, but this time it was Alcaraz who was able to break first after equaling 40-0 in a disputed fifth game and then not taking advantage of his breaking point. The Murcian later found it difficult to advance in the tenth game when it served to avoid going to a third set and, as in the first, he did not miss his next opportunity. As with 2-2, the veteran French player seemed to have already assured the always unpredictable ‘sudden death’ when he dominated 40-0, but the winner of four ‘Grand Slams’ did not relax, landed good blows and put pressure on his rival again . He could not save his third break point against him, he finally gave up the serve and Alcaraz easily made his way to the quarterfinals, becoming the first Spaniard to be in that round since 2017 when Rafa Nadal and Albert Ramos achieved it. .