If the tennis world wanted an answer from Carlos Alcaraz, the Iberian gave a nice impressive one. Making its debut in Masters1000 of Madridthe world number 3 walked against the Kazakh Alexander Shevchenkoa player often capable of creating more than one problem for his opponents but who appeared for a long time as a helper coming from the street. Carlitos takes over with one overwhelming 6-2 6-1 in 68 minutes, despite the conspicuous sleeve on his right arm, the one that caused him such inconvenience that he missed Monte Carlo and Barcelona.
It takes very little to make it clear who is in charge, the Iberian’s ball travels which is a pleasure. Ready to go and there are immediately three break points, the second is enough to bring the Spaniard immediately above at 3-1. The dominance materializes with another break in the fifth game for 4-1 after twenty-two minutes, but the Spaniard immediately pulls the plug after making a couple of dropshot errors.
Shevchenko thus recovers a break, but Alcaraz practically plays cat and mouse: under pressure again, he commands the exchange as and when he wants and he puts things back in order with a long shot that pinches the line and which makes it 5-2 and then comes the following closure of the fraction.
For the second set, you basically copy and paste: Carlitos does everything he wants, in less than 15 minutes he is up 3-0 while the opponent works hard to stay in contact. The Spaniard loses one of the two break leads more due to affectation than anything else, then gives a couple of blows and leaves crumbs to his opponent, who finds himself greeting him at the net in less than 70 minutes.
Ungenerous statistics for Shevchenko, who didn’t field a single winner and won only one service game in the whole match, bringing home more in return (2). For Alcaraz a health walk that leaves the time he finds, now the Brazilian is in the third round Thiago Seyboth Wild, who defeated Lorenzo Musetti.
