The Spaniard experiences two complicated sets against Lajal, but comes out at a distance: 7-6(3), 7-5, 6-2. Shapovalov eliminates Jarry, the other big names smile
It was not a pleasure walk that Carlos Alcaraz he lived on the lawn of Wimbledon in the first round of the 2024 tournament. The Spaniard had to fight for almost two and a half hours to get the better of Mark Lajal: 7-6(3), 7-5, 6-2 the final result. Ruud beats 3-0 Bolt (7-6(2), 6-4, 6-4), while Dimitrov imposes itself on Lajovic (6-3, 6-4, 7-5) e Medvedev are Kovacevic (6-3, 6-4, 6-2). Eliminated Jarry (6-1, 7-5, 6-4 per Shapovalov).
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MEN’S BOARD
What an effort for Carlos Alcarazwho had to work harder than expected to get the better of 7-6(3), 7-5, 6-1 Mark Lajal. The winner
of the last Wimbledon tournament he suffers the first break in the fifth game of the first set, but recovers immediately with a counterbreak: Alcaraz then takes the lead, but the Estonian does not give up and the first set is decided only in the tie-break, where the three services lost by Lajal are decisive. The second set is also not the easiest for the last winner of the Roland Garros, who ends up 2-0 down: the Spaniard manages to find an important break point in the third game and an even more decisive one at 6-5. Alcaraz he then closes the set on serve, leaving the Estonian at love. In the third match, the Iberian immediately breaks, and then takes the lead to 4-1 by breaking his rival’s serve again. He barked he has a surge of pride and extends the match, but then is forced to surrender 6-2: the 2003 class from Tallinn still greets Wimbledon with his head held high.
Good first time for Casper Ruudwho beats 7-6(2), 6-4, 6-4 Alex Bolt in two hours and sixteen minutes: the Norwegian thus enters the next round, where he will challenge Fabio Fognini. Ruud manages to cancel three break points in the fifth game, but Bolt takes the set to a tie-break: here the Norwegian breaks his serve three times and closes on the second set point. The second game remains balanced until 3-3, before the decisive extension by Ruud, who first breaks his opponent’s serve in the seventh game and then wins 6-4, even leaving the Australian scoreless. In the third set, Ruud took the lead thanks to a break point in the fifth game and then closed 6-4, after having five match points cancelled.
Winning day also for Grigor Dimitrovwhich he beats 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 Dusan Lajovic: the Bulgarian finds the first break point in the second game and thus builds an advantage which he then maintains for the entire set. In the second game, it is the Serbian who breaks serve immediately: the result is a balanced set, in which Dimitrov he only manages to prevail in the finale. The third set sees Lajovic escape at 3-0 (thanks to a break), but Dimitrov he comes back and, breaking his opponent’s serve twice, closes 7-5 on the first match point.
Three sets to zero is also the result with which Denis Shapovalov rule Nicolas JarryFinal score: 6-1, 7-5, 6-4. The first set is a
monologue by the Canadian, who breaks his opponent’s serve twice and wins with a wide 6-1. The Chilean reacts in
second set, but suffered a break point in the eleventh game, thus ending up 0-2 down overall. Shapovalov everything ends in the third set: the Canadian finds the decisive break in the fifth game and extends, winning on the second match point.
Victory in less than two hours of match also for Daniil Medvedev: beaten 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 Aleksandar Kovacevic. The Russian gets the first break in the second game and then keeps his serve, in a set he managed without too many problems. The script repeats itself in the second match, with Medvedev who took the lead with a break point in the seventh game and then closed 6-4. The last set was decided in thirty-seven minutes: the Russian immediately broke the American’s serve twice and won on the third match point.
WOMEN’S BOARD
Maria Saccari overcomes 6-3, 6-1 McCartney Kessler in a decidedly one-sided match: the Greek lost serve in the fifth game, but then found two break points in the sixth and eighth and won the first set comfortably 6-3. Sakkari She then dominated the second match: her opponent was never able to hold her serve and fell resoundingly 6-1.
Daria’s 6-3, 6-0 victory was also clear Kasatkina are Shuai Zhang: the match lasts less than an hour and a quarter, that’s enough for the
Russian to get the upper hand. Zhang finds a break point right away in the first game, but then loses her serve twice and is unable to recover. The second set is a solo of the Kasatkina: three serves stolen from the Chinese and victory on the first available match point.
