Murcia, Oct 9 (EFE).- Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, who is already in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters 1,000 and has accumulated 12 consecutive wins, clearly left behind the bad moment he experienced on the tour of the United States last August and He is two wins away from equaling his record of consecutive matches won as a professional.
The young tennis player from Murcia, 21 years old and current number 2 in the world -only the Italian Jannik Sinner surpasses him in the rankings-, beat the Frenchman Gael Monfils this Wednesday by 6-4 and 7-5 and will seek the semifinals against the Czech Tomas Machac, who beat the American Tommy Paul with a comeback 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3.
It will be the second time that El Palmar and Beroun meet, the latter being 23 years old and ranked 33rd on the ATP international list. The precedent dates back to September 11 in the Spain-Czech Republic confrontation in the group stage of the Davis Cup held in Valencia and Carlos took it in a match that ended early due to an injury to Machac, who had won the first set 6-7 (3) although the second was already scored by Alcaraz by a clear 6-1.
It was the second of the 12 consecutive matches that the Spaniard has won in the singles table – he also played doubles in both the Davis Cup and the Laver Cup – and that series of triumphs includes the two matches he faced in the first of those tournaments, the two he played at the Laver in Berlin, the five that made him champion at the ATP 500 in Beijing and the three he has in Shanghai.
You have to go back to his unexpected and premature KO in the second round of the United States Open against the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp to see a defeat for Alcaraz -1-6, 5-7 and 4-6-.
He was the main failure of Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil this season but he rose quickly to once again be that decisive tennis player who imposes his tennis against that of his rivals.
For now, he has already equaled the streak of 12 consecutive victories he obtained this year, counting the seven with which he won Wimbledon and five more to reach a final at the Paris Olympic Games that he lost against the Serbian Novak Djokovic in a double tie break. -6-7 (3) and 6-7 (2)-.
The progression of the Palmar native suggests that he could surpass the 14 wins he achieved in 2023 – five at the ATP 500 in Queens, seven at Wimbledon and the two he won at the Masters 1,000 in Canada until Tommy crossed his path. Paul, to whom he lost 3-6, 6-4 and 3-6.
In 2022, he added five in the ATP 500 in Barcelona, another five in the Masters 1,000 in Madrid and his first four matches at Roland Garros until, in the quarterfinals, he lost against the German Alexander Zverev 4-6, 4- 6, 6-4 and 6-7 (7)-. EFE
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