Carlos Alcaraz came from a complicated section, without gaining any Trophy of Drumbs from Wimbledon and with the inevitable presence of doubts, eternal travel companions, so he knows to glory this first bite in Montecarlo, the sixth in a 1000 Masters, the nineteenth of his elite career; He leaves àlex Corretja and now points to Carlos Moyà (20). The last photograms of this Sunday, because Lorenzo Musetti’s muscular engine has broken and everything that happens in the third set does not deserve analysis. Wandering already, the Italian can barely walk and the duel closes with a 3-6, 6-1 and 6-0, after 1h 47m. “I don’t like to finish like this, I hope it’s nothing serious,” laments the winner, the youngest who triumphs in the Costa Azul Tournament since Rafael Nadal did with 21 years in 2008; Link already to the Mallorcan (11), Ferrero (2), Bruguera (2), Moyà (1) and Orantes (1) in the history.
Success and, finally, happiness for him, since in recent times he had not finished getting what he repeats so much and that he needs so much, to have a good time competing. “It has been a difficult tournament and with complicated situations, so I am proud of how I have resolved them,” he explains, having unseat the German Alexander Zverev on the second step of the ranking Thanks to this last laurel. “After Miami [donde fue eliminado a la primera por el veterano David Goffin]. It has been difficult to manage and get on the truly important, but having been able to solve those problems makes me supercontent. I had not enjoyed this week, so now I want to continue, ”he adds before raising the trophy and dissipating, now, that uncertainty that fluttered around him for having gone from empty hands of the US tour.
But the earth has returned, tennis is in Europe and he appears strongly. It has not been a glowing tournament in terms of play, but, after all, Alcaraz has entry imposed hierarchy on an area that has been taken over as Nadal’s decline arrived. There are already his footprints in Umag, Buenos Aires, Río, Barcelona (2), Madrid (2), and adds now on Montecarlo, prestigious land. The greats Earthlings They won here (Nastase, Borg, Vilas, Wilander, Muster, Kuerten …) And today he summarizes him, after a week of turns and rectifications, of being amended on the march. It reached the final with an average of high errors (33), but there is the mantra that always grabs: if it is there it is to win them, 78% success. He has only given five, but in those of greatest relevance it rarely fails; Perhaps Cincinnati, but then faced all the grandiosity of Novak Djokovic.
It does not escape this end to the development of the whole week, excessively curvilinear and too oscillating Alcaraz; Without continuity, crossing valleys full of skeletons. As soon as five games have passed and his mistake of errors already reflects 12, all committed after a hopeful start, with break above. It painted the thing well, but it has immediately twisted. The same script of these days in which the Murcian I have had to navigate through revolts constantly, without truce or respite, stepping on a few puddles so wanting everything quickly and now, now or nothing; Forced to turn off fires too often. They say a few experts who should learn to get bored, at about passing balls during the hours that is needed, but he announces it in the docuserie that will immediately arrive at the Netflix catalog: In my way. He will learn and pause, but Alcaraz is Alcaraz. With all that this entails. That is, tennis to the limit.
Four hours difference
Guerrea throughout the first partial with a hurry and the diverted peephole, while Musetti, the Adonis polished in the Carrara quarries, begins to display the fabulous combination that he has been pursued for a long time: the aesthetic and the effective, the artistic and the competitive. “I don’t want to be the handsome boy who doesn’t know how to suffer.” From the outset, with little extracts a lot, but then everything is putting it on its part, without being impressed and pulling delicious setbacks. Every time it is reversed, Alcaraz knows that he will have problems. The Spanish looks for the reverse to a hand, but not even for those on the right track. The Italian resists and is growing, from 0-1 adverse to 4-1, and the time to close draws a lifted fantasy doll, very actually Alcaraz. In times of imaginative scarcity, of the physical and the frantic, gathering these two virgueros seems one of the most suggestive options; two ferrarisYes, but with abundant ingenuity at the wheel.
So far, unbeatable stage for Musetti. However, the Italian beaten the five games he has played in the previous rounds, as if they had thrown an anvil of one thousand kilos from the top of the Peñasco. Everything is complicated. The four accumulated comebacks – only Berrettini did not force a third set – begin to weigh too much on the legs and shoulders, and what until doing nothing was poetry now becomes penance, five to zero to Alcaraz in the blink of eyes. The Murcia is costing to warm up, but as the impetus moderates and adopts a more calm disposition, it is obtaining revenues. If there are no gifts, the story changes. The one in front of it costs a world to get well to the ball and it is enough to risk less and put them inside to open easily stretch. There are no mysteries here: the beaten land rewards workers. “There is no hurry, huh? Be there, all the time there!” They slide from the bench.
The ball that was already falling is slide and hooked soon, and then a cross -upstairs that cuts the air and precedes a sterile attempt from Musetti at the end in the end. Lord point and finger to the ear: this is me, Montecarlo. The second set has already fallen into his hands and the sea is very brave, with the clouds threatening all the time with downloading and waiting for the party, but keeps the temper because it must be; Now, like so many other times, it seems that the final is essentially in your hand. He wins or loses it. The adversary, molten, weighs to the eyelashes and the quadriceps hurts, the insertion of the psoas, moves as it can. This is badly. It is burst. He invested 11h 31m in the previous stations – almost four more than the new champion – and how little he had stayed in the first act of the game, so little more to do from there to the outcome. Sad the resolution, but this is sport.
They massage him and try, so not to abandon, if he is elegant, but he can barely jog and already empty, perhaps broken, delivered with disgust. Thus comes the first coronation of Alcaraz in the Principality, another goal crossed out of the map. The Murcian needed with rudder and arrives here and now, with the land beaten as a platform to resume the impulse.
