After Rotterdam Open, ATP Tour will continue to have an additional ATP 500 prize, Rio Open. This is the tournament on the ground pitched in Brazil. In addition to the top seeds such as Matteo Berrettini, Casper Ruud or Diego Schwartzman, Carlos Alcaraz is also a very remarkable name by impressive steps recently.
This morning, February 15, Alcaraz had just matched at Rio Open. The opponent of this 18 -year -old star is Jaume Munar – the world -class player in the world. Tieu Nadal faced many difficulties before writing his name in the second round.
Entering Set 1, Alcaraz entered the game quite well when winning the break right in the second set. However, the games later witnessed the extremely strong return of Munar.
Even in Game 3, Munar reclaimed the break successfully and leveled 2-2. Coming to Game 5 and Game 7, the world -class player in the world has 2 times successfully breaking the serve game of Alcaraz. Set 1 closed with an overwhelming victory of 6-2 in favor of Munar.
However, to set 2, the game has completely reversed. Alcaraz has completely owned the game and has twice won the break, in turn in games 4 and 8, thereby winning 6-2 in set 2. The score is 1-1, forcing the two players to enter Set 3.
In this set, Munar shows psychological signs and plays extremely badly. He left Alcaraz repeatedly winning the break and led to 0-5. Coming to Game 7, the 18-year-old star did not make any mistakes to set the overwhelming victory of 6-1.
In the end, Alcaraz has successfully come back to win tickets to the second round of Rio Open. His opponent is the winner of Daniel Elahi Galan vs Federico Delbonis.
