2022 is the year to witness the breakthrough in Carlos Alcaraz's relatively young career. After reaching the semi -finals of the Indian Wells Master, the Spanish player continued to do the same thing at the Miami Open.
'Little Nadal' won the right to attend the semi -finals of the Miami Open 2022 after surpassing Miomir Kecmanovic in the quarterfinals. This is a hard match of 18 -year -old tennis player.
Kecmanovic caused Alcaraz to fail in the first set. Alcaraz lost to break the first game. At the 7th game, he broke the game but still lost with a score of 5-7 in the tie-break series.
Carlos Alcaraz returned strongly in set 2. The successful defense of the gaming games then helped Alcaraz end the set with a 6-3 victory.
The decision set is really tense. Both players are not making mistakes when holding the ball, so the set must enter the tie-break series. Unlike the first series of tie-breaks, Alcaraz this time better protected the advantage to win with a score of 7-5.
In the victory over Miomir Kecmanovic, Carlos Alcaraz has significantly improved the ability to serve. Throughout the victory over the Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals, Alcaraz only made 1 ACE but had done the same 5 times when fighting Kecmanovic.
The 1st serve rate in the match against Tsitsipas was only 74%, which was raised by Alcaraz to 77% against Kecmanovic. Improving the ability to serve to help the 18 -year -old player 'finish' the game more quickly and makes the 22 -year -old opponent from Serbia hard to win the break.
The opponent of Carlos Alcaraz in the semi -final Miami Open 2022 is Hubert Hurkacz. Hurkacz has just created a big shock when Daniil Medvedev was only after 2 sets. The remaining semi -finals were the competition between Francisco Cerundolo and Casper Ruud (seed No. 6).
