Alcaraz

Le prodige espagnol a sauvé une balle de match avant de l'emporter à l'usure, mercredi lors du 2e tour.

Ce chiffre dit autant de la tension lors du match que de l'imperfection des coups du jeune Espagnol. Avec 74 fautes directes, le n°6 mondial a gâché. Ses 25 amortis n'ont pas franchement fait mouche contre un spécialiste de la terre battue, prompt à démoder le tube du moment. Sur 31 balles de breaks, Alcaraz en a converti huit. Et que dire de cette balle de break enfin convertie à 4-4, après avoir rattrapé trois smashs de son adversaire ?

Carlos Alcaraz a fini par s'en sortir en cinq sets ce mercredi après un combat XXL de 4h34 face à Albert Ramos-Vinolas (6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 7-6, 6-4)

Décidement, ce gamin de 19 ans est bluffant. Mais si ce gamin est aussi spécial, c'est parce qu'il possède le gène des géants, celui qui empêche ces derniers d'abdiquer. A chaque point gagné, il a serré le poing, preuve que son ambition était intacte. A 5-4 sur son service, Ramos-Vinolas s'est offert une balle de match, provoquant des secousses dans tout Roland-Garros. Mais l'expérience a beau être là, elle fut insuffisante pour enlever ce bras qui tremble, provoquant une faute directe de sa part. En ramenant tout grâce à ses balles bombées et ses effets extérieurs, Ramos-Vinolas a complètement annihilé la puissance de feu d'Alcaraz. Malgré deux sets accrochés au score, c'est bien le joueur de 34 ans qui avait la mainmise sur le match (6-1, 6-7 [7], 5-7). Irrespirable, ce quatrième le fut, encore plus quand le vent du boulet semblait pousser Alcaraz vers la sortie. Rapidement, on a pensé Ramos-Vinolas K.-O. dès le premier round. Seulement 19 ans mais déjà une palanquée de blockbusters au compteur.

Carlos Alcaraz remained alive for his first Grand Slam title with a gutsy come-from-behind performance.

Awaiting Djokovic in the third round is Aljaz Bedene, who rallied from a set down to take out Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-4. Ramos-Vinolas, a 34-year-old left-hander, broke Alcaraz with a forehand winner to take a 5-4 lead in the fourth set. He won the tiebreak to force a fifth set. The Serb is seeking to tie Nadal with his 21st Grand Slam title. “I will look at the video and try to see what I did wrong.” “I feel tired,” Alcaraz said in his on-court interview, cracking a laugh.

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But Alcaraz showed no fear with his back against the wall, obliterating a 131mph overhead off the bounce for a winner to earn his second break point of the game. That momentum came to a screeching halt when Ramos-Vinolas raced to a 3-0 lead in the fifth. Few opponents this year have been able to find a way to take the teen out of his rhythm. Alcaraz raised his arms like a championship boxer as the Court Simonne-Mathieu crowd leapt to its feat, while Ramos-Vinolas threw his racquet into the terre battue in disappointment. Alcaraz missed a forehand into the net to allow his countryman back on serve. Alcaraz rallied from 0-3 in the fifth to move ahead by a break at 4-3.

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"At the end of the third set, I thought I was going to lose," Alcaraz said. Good as he might already be, his oft-stated desire to keep improving bodes well for what might come down the road. He is the youngest player to break into the top 10 of the ATP rankings since Rafael Nadal in 2005. That lone loss came at the Monte Carlo Masters last month against Korda - who happens to be Alcaraz's next opponent. Molcan is coached by Djokovic's longtime coach, Marian Vajda, and was able to push Djokovic to a third-set tiebreaker. Eighty minutes later, after trailing 3-0 in the fifth, Alcaraz earned his first match point and converted it with an ace.

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She is a five-time clay-court champion on the tour. Gauff twice fell behind by two games in the second set but broke back both times. ___ ___ ___ The last time Zverev put himself in a two-set hole at Roland Garros it didn’t end as well. ___ Molcan is coached by Djokovic’s long-time coach Marian Vajda and was able to push Djokovic to a third-set tiebreaker. ___ He is the youngest player to break into the top 10 of the ATP rankings since Rafael Nadal in 2005. ___ ___

Carlos Alcaraz won a French Open five-set thriller over Albert Ramos Vinolas to advance to the third round at Roland Garros.

“He train with a lot of intensity all the time. “I want to play big battles and tough battles against the best players in the world,” Alcaraz said. “The intensity he train, no?” he said. He was also up 3-0 in a fifth set that included six breaks of serve. It marked the longest match of Alcaraz’s young career at more than four and a half hours. We fought until the last point.”

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Un point incroyable qui a déclenché une ovation dingue et fait définitivement basculer la rencontre et le public dans le camp du jeune prodige. Mouais, on passera alors sous silence le fait qu’il a vite été mené 3-0 dans le 5e set avant de revenir une nouvelle fois de nulle part. A quoi ça tient un destin ? Pour Carlos Alcaraz, à une bande du filet.

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