“This hurts,” admits Carlos Alcaraz. Why? “For the nerves. Instead of focusing on myself, today I was more worried about his level. From the first hour, all day like this … I entered the nervous track. And, in this sport, this is a big problem. This is what happened “, continues that of El Palmar, without the possibility of capturing the third consecutive trophy that would have led him to the privileged space of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, the only ones who reached him in the Indian wells. The subject is wrong this time. The beginning was rather horrible and the irrelevant fate. Jack Draper, 23 years old and shining with the first ten, deserves the victory (6-1, 0-6 and 6-4, in 1h 44m) and will be measured in the final of this Sunday (22.00, Movistar+) with the Runa of the Danish Holger, while the winner of the last two regrets regrets: “I am upset by how I faced the game, not to be known to calm down. This is the most disappointing.
Nerve Bag, Alcaraz. So the triumphal sequence is greater than 16 wins since 2023, beaten only in the tournament for Murray, Nadal and now Draper – and as soon as the costumes reach, he explains with his coach by bike, more spaced now in classification Leader Jannik Sinner (4,420 points above) and Alexander Zverev (1,035). It’s the minimum, he says. “It’s probably one of the worst sets that I played during my career,” he recognizes in front of journalists. Trial, after all. “Tennis players play about 80 games per year, 16, 17 or 18 tournaments, and the most difficult thing is to maintain the level; This is something that I hope to get “, extends; “But sometimes I forget that I am 21 years old, so I have to think I am still young, that I have a lot to improve. And I think I’m doing it. I’m maturing. I am approaching what I want to be, but sometimes I am playing at a very high level and then lowers a lot, so I have to continue working, continue to learn.
This time there remains a blur. And an Englishman calls for him: “Well, for him, he made him fantastic. He is ready to compete in the big tournaments, he did not surprise me at all.
It takes Alcaraz to appear too much and little or nothing can extract positively from the first partial, dotted with errors, 13, permanently uncomfortable and, rare, touching the ball really badly; Dirty bocchi, short balls or room and a serene and grateful draper to those who use to put aside what corresponds to him and wait for the sentence to find the prize. The mucia of the sin of rainfall, in search of the winning shot too quickly, and the initial sleeve is resolved in a twist, surprised the whole world for the crude oil reflected of the statistics on the performance paper. No hot cloths: the two -stroke champion, unknown. Where? There is not only one good news, nothing to scratch for him; denied with the service (38%) and determined to follow a fast track that damages it; Five spider points in the 13 you need it to enter. Unjustified speophol. English ventilate it in 23 minutes.
Do not change the dynamics in the second half, immediately with another fright in the body and 17 errors already in just eight games. However, a ace The Redeemer avoids another skating at the beginning and, from there, like the one who refreshed the face with cold water to eliminate a Monday, starts recovering the ground lost by a simple formula as many times precious, the basic survival manual: when they are captured, a pause point, a ball in the center and a cross blow. More weight, more height, greater effect on the parable. And if until then the British had taken care of the game comfortably, Draper is now what the compass loses and is disoriented, as if it had infected the error and what starts riding in the middle of this bandage script, strange, while Alcaraz lifts the fist while it is right and tries to rename the stands by the stands, Vitamins in the form of the PDS. He understands it, but it is a pleasure of passage. The refinement does not end.
Insufficient outburst
“Your tennis, your tennis! Look for it! “Asks Ferrero, but as soon as he gets up while he looks among the difficulties. All very not connected. It was not the day, it’s clear. Rarely, the right of the Spanish crunches and this time there is no way to keep the good path, trace again in the third and with Draper who acquires a good color again, without fear of Sutton, biting the rest and without wrinkles on long journeys. There is a tennis player, go if there is. It hurts those injuries, because otherwise maybe I would have already demolished the important occasional door. Tightening the teeth this Saturday when the wind granted the truce to express his hunger, here I am, elite, I have a server for what comes if this corpachon of mine is respected, until now impediment. He has strength, accelerates, opens angles with that left way that hides the execution up to the last moment and knows how to interpret the hot sections, when he really has to squeeze.
With 1-1 and 15-15 in the third, the VAR must intervene, considering Mohammed Layani who was late for the one on the left and there was a second boat. This is not the case. The revision forces the judge to rectify and Draper expands definitively, more inspired, more determined and simply superior, with Alcaraz still oscillating, too hesitant and without finishing finding the incandescence that allows him to turn the result. The explosion of the muccia has remained less, it is scarce, loses tone and the rival opens the extension (5-2); also invalidated that last break This gave at least one last chance. But no epic, the series closes. Here ends the layout of an Alcaraz who is discovering new inconvenience in a season in which they seem to blow up the winds dangerous, more artillery; The Brazilian João Fonseca arrives and nobody should lose sight of English, semifinalist of the last US Open, wanting to make noise and be in some way in the ointment.
“It was a strange game. Carlos left himself a little out and then something similar happened to me, I made myself tense, I had little energy. Against the best in the world, the rhythm can change very quickly and I lost myself for 25 minutes, but in the third I was able to compete and I had the right attitude, and in the end I managed to cross the finish line “, reconstructs the winner, passed by Rune the only time they have crossed until now, last year in Cincinnati. The two beat in search of bite in this milFirst end for English and fourth for Danish, Burcy champion in 2022 and stops against Medvedev (7-5 and 6-4). They will see him from the barrier of El Ruso – from the success of two years ago in Rome – and Alcaraz, who triumphed last month in Róterdam and was not lucky to Melbourne (rooms), Doha (rooms) or now in California. He will immediately return to the load: “The last time I lost here (in 2022, in front of Nadal) was also in the semifinal, and then I won in Miami, so I’m going to everyone. I will learn from this.
Andreeva large in Sabalenka
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The young Merrara Andreeva de Melbourne started in January with a bad taste. The 17 -year -old Russian therefore had the feeling that the situation had been able and that he had not known how to move on to Aryna Sabalenka, with whom he will meet this Sunday (19.00) in the California final.
“It’s as if a mother played against a girl. I take it nine years!
The Russian, directed by the concite Aragonese Martínez, defeated the Polish Iga Swiatek (7-6 (1), 1-6 and 6-3) and will try to lie down again in Sabalenka, who has already reduced last year in the sand of Roland Garros. Therefore, however, the circuit governor was able to both Brisbane and in the first great of the season.
Andreeva will try today to reach what her coach could not, finalist in the 1992 editions (Monica Seles) and 1996 (Steffi Graf). He will do it as the first to land in the epilogue of the Belgian tournament Kim Clicters (17 in 2001) and the fifth that arrives so far without having reached the age of Senles (1991), Martina Hingis (1998), Serena Williams (1999) and Clojsters.
In the meantime, Sabalenka will try to get his first victory in the Indian wells after the last counted against Elena Rybakina in 2023 and, at the same time, the current gap on Swiatek will increase, right now at 2,231 points.
