The first quarter-final of the Roland Garros 2022 ended with a great surprise. The race of the young baby prodigy of world tennis, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, brought back down to earth by an extraordinary Alexander Zverev, is over.
The number three in the world beats a Top-10 in a Grand Slam for the first time and annihilates the title hopes of the Spaniard, a great favorite on the eve of the match, forced to revise his certainties. First two one-way sets with Zverev in control and Carlos in clear difficulty, the Spaniard reacts and first wins the third and then makes Sascha tremble in the fourth but in the end the number three in the world brings the tiebreak home and wins the fourth. the final.
We saw good things from Alcaraz, especially in the third and fourth set, but the inexperience in the Grand Slams and, perhaps, too much pressure on the eve of the match, as well as the strength, especially on clay-courts, of Zverev, they made a difference.
Here is the video of one of the points of the match:
Not going out without a fight šŖ@alcarazcarlos03 takes the third set 6-4 against Zverev.@rolandgarros | #RolandGarros
ā ATP Tour (@atptour) May 31, 2022