After nearly 2 weeks of competition, Madrid Open is about to go to an end. At this time, the men's singles have just completed the semi -finals. The two best names won tickets to the final were officially revealed.
In the semi -final 1, Carlos Alcaraz had a Borna Coric encounter. Entering set 1, Coric causes many difficulties for the No. 1 seed at the beginning of the set. Accordingly, the Croatian player has a break point in game 4, but does not take advantage of success.
Shortly thereafter, Coric had to pay the price. He easily loses the break in game 5 to the opponent's hands. In the rest of the set, Alcaraz kept the advantage, thereby ending Set 1 with a 6-4 victory.
Sang Set 2, Coric lost the break first in game 3 and then reclaimed the break successfully in game 4. However, this is also all that the Croatian player can do. He lost 2 more breaks in games 5 and 9, thereby accepting the racket with defeat 3-6.
In the end, Alcaraz defeated Coric with a score of 6-4, 6-3 and officially won tickets to the Madrid Open final. Notably, this victory came on his 20th birthday. Speaking after the match, Alcaraz could not hide his joy:
“Today's victory has a great significance to me, when I was once again playing the final in Madrid. This city was a very special place for me, when I had a lot of beautiful memories when I started playing here when I was 12 years old.
Welcome 20 years old like this is special. I will try my best in the final to make the people of Spain feel happy, ”Alcaraz said.
In the final, the opponent of Alcaraz will be Jan-Lennard Struff. The German player defeated Aslan Karatsev with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
