An overflowing Carlos Alcaraz eliminated Stefanos Tsitsipas and in the semifinals at Roland Garros he will face Novak Djokovic. Without history the performance of the first two sets that the Spaniard, number 1 in the world, won 6-2, 6-1 in 68 minutes. Tsitsipas, who soon appeared disheartened and gradually more and more unable to organize a reaction, couldn’t find the measure to reply to Alcaraz’s aggressive game, which alternated powerful and deep shots with surgically precise drop balls.
The third set was more balanced, in which Alcaraz found himself ahead 4-1, only to run into an empty pass that allowed the opponent to go back up to 5 all, after canceling three match points. It came to the tie-break, which Alcaraz – found the right concentration – closed on 7-5 in his favour, after 2h12′ of play.
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