The German beat the Spaniard in four sets and eliminated him from the Grand Slam which he has yet to win. With this result, the Serbian will remain at the top of the ATP rankings.
Winning the Australian Open will remain a pending feat for Carlos Alcaraz . The young Spanish tennis player never managed to win the first Grand Slam of the season and this time he fell to an energetic Alexander Zverev.
The world number 6 reached the quarter-finals of the ocean tournament determined to become the biggest tormentor of the second in the world. And he succeeded brilliantly. “Sacha” developed incredible tennis, which left the Spaniard without reaction and won the first set by an impeccable score of 6-1.
Alcaraz was looking for a reaction, but the German didn’t want any surprises and won the second set with a comfortable 6-3, a marker that seemed to discourage the El Palmar-born man who was considering an easy procedure.
Additionally, young Hispanics should never be considered dead. With more wit than strategy, the twenty-year-old extended the match by winning the third set 7-6 and it looked like he would turn the tables for the man accused last week of domestic violence.
However, Zverev did not collapse psychologically and went for victory – with patience – in the fourth. Games . Attitude rewarded by a 6-4 in favor and a ticket for the semi-finals, where he will face the Russian Daniil Medvedev (3rd) for a pass at the end of the tournament.
“I faced one of the best players in the world, he won two Grand Slams and when you are at 5-2, very close to victory, you start to think… I am happy to have finally been able to to enclose. “, the Hamburg native said on the official broadcast.
Djokovic will continue to be king
The defeat of Alcaraz and the passage of Novak Djokovic to the instance of the best four, They ensured the Serbian remained at the top of the ATP rankings . And although tennis fans expected a definition between him and the Spaniard, in the first place, “Nole” was the only one to meet expectations.
From now on, Djokovic will face the Italian Jannik Sinner (4th) and Zverev became the tennis player who beat Alcaraz the most times, reaching a record of 5-3 on the Murcian athlete (previously he was tied with Sinner with four victories).
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