On the finish of the day, when Rafael Nadal mentioned goodbye to the Olympic match, Spanish followers had purpose to have fun. Their younger star, Carlos Alcaraz, didn’t disappoint expectations and registered within the third spherical. Within the night session match on Philippe Chatrier’s courtroom, the 21-year-old from Murcia defeated Tallon Griekspoor 6:1, 7:6(3).
After successful the primary set easily, it appeared that this is able to be a match with out historical past. In the meantime, within the second set, Alcaraz had a tougher time, and all due to bodily issues. At 4:5, the Spaniard requested for medical intervention and disappeared into the locker room.
Again on the courtroom, Alcaraz’s destiny hung within the stability. Nonetheless, the Spaniard saved a set level to equalize at 5-5, then compelled a tie break, which he received 7-3 and ended the match.
Alcaraz served 5 aces on Monday, despatched 23 recreation winners, by no means let himself be damaged and transformed two of three break factors. Within the spherical of 16, the second-seeded Spaniard will face Roman Safiullin, to whom he misplaced final yr in Paris, solely at Bercy.
By defeating Christopher Eubanks within the first spherical, Benjamin Hassan grew to become the primary Lebanese in historical past to win a match within the Olympic Video games. The 29-year-old didn’t comply with up on this distinctive success and on Monday after greater than two hours of preventing he turned out to be barely weaker than Sebastian Baez.
Baez, quantity 12, who had 4 aces, 34 finishers and two break factors on Monday, will play Stefanos Tsitsipas, the match’s quantity eight, within the third spherical. This would be the third match between the 2 gamers. The Greek received each earlier matches.
Olympic Video games, Paris (France) Males’s Singles, Clay Court docket Monday, July 29
Singles spherical 2:
Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, 2) – Tallon Griekspoor (Netherlands) 6:1, 7:6(3) Sebastian Baez (Argentina, 12) – Benjamin Hassan (Lebanon) 6:2, 3:6, 7:6(3)
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