Alcaraz prevails over Rune's contemporary talent and advances to the Wimbledon semifinals

Victory of the Spanish against the Dane by 7-6 (3), 6-4 and 6-4

   MADRID, 12 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz qualified this Wednesday for the semifinals of the Wimbledon tournament, the third 'Grand Slam' of the season and which is played on grass in London (United Kingdom), after winning 7-6(3), 6- 4 and 6-4 to the Danish Holger Rune, meeting now with the Russian Daniil Medvedev.

On Center Court at the All England Lawn Tennis

The duel started with an expected score and with the Murcian saving the first ball of 'break' for Rune in the first game. The one from El Palmar solved it without a doubt, initially with almost no errors in his services, nor in those of the Dane. Very high level of both, with a huge variety of blows and a Rune pressing the rival's second serve a lot.

The Dane felt close to the fear of the 'break' with 3-2 and 0-30 for Alcaraz, but he used talent to equalize again and not damage his confidence. The number 6 in the world, continually complaining about the state of the grass after a couple of slips, found it more difficult to carry out each serve, while a solid Alcaraz continued sniffing out weaknesses.

Rune dodged the doubts well and even hovered around the break option with 4-4 and 0-30; However, Alcaraz recovered showing off his skill in drop shots near the net. The two players kept their turns to serve and the first set was decided in a sudden death of high level on both sides of the court.

Although the Dane suffered a 'minibreak' at the third point, he tied the match immediately and that presaged that he was going to get emboldened, but the man from El Palmar took the lead again at the seventh point and it was enough to close the opening set. in his favor, boldly, after more than an hour.

The dynamics of the following set exhibited a lot of intensity, if possible greater than in the previous set, according to the minds of two players determined in their purposes. Except in the fourth game, where there was a 40-40 taking out the Spaniard, no one suffered in his services. So the 'tie-break' was a foreseeable outcome.

But Alcaraz's deployment does not combine predictability if that goes against him, and then he pressed to break in the ninth game (5-4) at the first opportunity he enjoyed. Then he went up 40-0 and closed the second set with hardly any hassles, making it clear to his contemporary rival that looking for a comeback would be an epic undertaking from then on.

The Nordic tennis player accepted what happened and took the blow well at the start of the third set, without faltering in his first two service turns. However, he was unable to find a way to stop the deep blows from Alcaraz, who broke in the fifth game (3-2) and came close to victory with the score at 5-3, 30-40.

Two 'looting' dissipated the momentary scare for Rune, who then succumbed to the rest. There were a total of two hours and 23 minutes of battle, perhaps less than what some experts in the field predicted. This came in handy for Alcaraz, because in the 'semis' he will face a Medvedev wanting to prolong a sweet tournament for him.

EUBANKS SEEING HIS DREAM TRUCKED

It cost him, yes, to get rid of American Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 7-6(4) and 6-1 in their quarterfinal match. In the first three sets, the Russian was in tow, but made saves to come back at key moments and to score the tiebreak when he was on the ropes during the fourth set.

In the fifth and final set, Medvedev broke the first two turns of rival service and acquired a large lead (4-0) that he did not let go of. After three hours, Eubanks saw his dream cut short and was left out of a 'semis' where the Russian and Alcaraz will reissue their thirty-second duel in the 2021 Wimbledon edition.

In the women's individual draw, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka defeated the also American Madison Keys (6-2 and 6-4 in an hour and a half) and met in the penultimate round with the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, executioner of the Kazakh Elena Rybakina by (5) 6-7, 6-4 and 6-1 in one hour and 55 minutes.