[NTDTV, Beijing, April 4, 2022]On April 3, local time, the men’s singles final of the 2022 Miami Masters was grandly staged. The 18-year-old Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz Garfia defeated the 23-year-old “Norwegian brother” Casper Ruud 7-5/6-4 to win the Masters for the first time in his career and become the Miami Open. Youngest champion.
Alcaraz, who is only 18 years old this year, is a superstar in Spain, and his performance is not worthy of the name of “Little Nadal”. In the 2020 season, he won the ATP Rookie of the Year Award. In 2021, at the age of 18 years and 3 months, he will surpass the “Big Three” of Federer, Nadal and Xiaode of the same age and become the youngest active player to win the first victory in the four major championships.
At the US Open last year, he won four games in a row and entered the quarterfinals, becoming the youngest player in the US Open quarterfinals since the 1968 Tennis Open era. By the end of last year, his world ranking had soared from 141 at the beginning of the year to 32, making him the youngest player in the world‘s top 100.
At the age of 18 years and 9 months, Alcaraz became the youngest champion of the ATP500 competition since its establishment in 2009. His world ranking broke into the top 20 in one fell swoop, surpassing Nadal of the same age. , becoming the youngest active player to achieve this achievement.
The North American “Sunshine Doubles” (Indian Wells and Miami) Alcalás were quite consistent. In Indian Wells, he lost to his idol Nadal in three sets in the semifinals; in Miami, he took it to the next level, winning five straight and reaching the final.
Although Alcaraz is a clay court player, his game style is not like his idol Nadal, but rather similar to the Swiss king Federer. His coach, former world No. 1 Ferrero, thinks so too. Alcaraz’s shot is very aggressive, he likes to come to the net to put pressure on opponents, and at the same time combine small ball tactics to mobilize opponents.
Alcaraz’s final opponent was 23-year-old Rudd, ranked No. 7 in the world. He is also the first Norwegian player in history to appear in the men’s singles final of the Masters. In April last year, the two met once on clay in Marbella. At that time, Alcaraz won 6-2/6-4, occupying a certain psychological advantage.
The 18-year-old has the last laugh in straight sets
After the start of the final, the older Ruud entered the state faster, broke Alcaraz’s serve as soon as he came up, and quickly took a 3-0 lead. In the cheers of the fans on the scene, Alcaraz gradually adjusted his mentality, regained his feel, completed the break, and tied the score at 5-5. At the critical moment, Alcalás scored the winning point with a violent forehand, broke serve, and then maintained a strong serve to win the game 7-5.
In the second set, Alcaraz continued his strong performance, breaking two serving games of his opponent in a row and taking a 3-0 lead. However, Ruder did not give up. In the fourth game, the two sides fought to a tie three times. The Norwegian finally broke serve on the sixth break point. Next, Rudd defended the hair strongly with the Love Game. During the break, he asked the doctor to enter the venue for massage therapy on his hip. After that, the Spanish star did not give his opponent a chance to counterattack, and stably defended his serve, winning the last laugh 6-4.
In the end, after 1 hour and 52 minutes of fierce battle, Alcaraz defeated Rude in straight sets and won the Masters championship for the first time in his career, ending the embarrassing record of 0 wins and 8 losses of the Spanish players in the men’s singles final of the Miami Open. . Previously, Nadal, the 21-time Grand Slam champion, had reached the Miami final five times, but missed the title five times.
In addition, Alcaraz also became the fifth men’s singles champion in the 37-year history of the tournament to be ranked outside the top ten in the world. The win takes Alcaraz’s latest world ranking to 11th, just 29 points behind Nori, who is in 10th place. Previously, Alcaraz said that the goal he set for himself this year was to be among the top 15 by the end of the year, and now he has completed the task ahead of schedule.
(Transfer from The Epoch Times/Editor-in-charge: Ye Ping)
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