Alcaraz, suffering from inertia to reduce a great munar | Tennis | Sports

It sighs and takes air Carlos Alcaraz. It is not for less. Gone is a good dose of trouble and the stopwatch indicates 3h 30m at the close, and the winner wonders: Are we in whipped land?

They squeeze the sun and moisture of London strongly, the funds of the Queen’s track are peeking and in front there is a rival that has forced him to suffer a world, but the dynamics is exactly the same; That is, that of a tennis player who wins, wins and wins, happily enraged him, as if everything were so easy, so simple, so ordinary. Nothing. Always remember: tennis and lose, almost always hand in hand. Inevitable that company, even for the strongest; . However, the Murcia – Contra Reilly Opelka or Arthur Rinderknech in the rooms of this Friday, around 15.30 – took run at the beginning of spring and continues that good, erect, launched and incontestable until today. With at least 15 consecutive victories.

The latter against Jaume Munar (6-4, 6-7 (7) and 7-5, after 3h 23m) rounds the best sequence of his career, improving the ones he recorded in 2022 and 2023, both interrupted when he reached number 14, the one who will accompany the Pete Sampras gunman forever, insurmountable wall so far. He flew for the first time from the Godó to the Roland Garros rooms, and then he did that of Queen’s to Canada’s asphalt. This time, the origin is in, of April 9, and the good march continues on the already raid and earthy green of London, where he also acts as a winner, pressing his teeth and squeezing himself before someone who does not return his face at any time.

“In favor, in favor, in favor … and suddenly puts it there!” Licks Munar, a nonconformist who progresses and grows, increasingly brave, discovering new worlds after having decided to leave the trench. It is now or never. They are 28 years and their game uncovers green sprouts, very fast legs, sharp in the shots, combative as always and determined to make the jump to finally get over the border that delimits the 50 best. Good road to the chosen one, surely the only one possible: the risk or nothing. So simple, so difficult. And it goes for all Mallorcan, from you against a young giant who fights it, sweats it and suffers from the beautiful. It ends by panting Alcaraz. I could perfectly have lost.

He squeezes and demands from the beginning to end Munar, and also does the clock. There is a already seen. I protested a year ago, when I gave against Jack Draper on this same scale, and he does it again: “There is no time, it is crazy! I need to make my routines!”, It recriminates the judge when the pulse has already entered the tense litigation of the second set, to take both, of equal to equal but with the Balear The first manga has opted for him – and cornering him: at the eighth opportunity, Alcaraz finds no escape.

Under an apparent linearity and a rather logical course, everything is really very scrambled. There are beating two guys without fear. The El Palmar smiles despite the fact that the story is getting tangled up for him and turns out to his style, throwing the one left, with a fabulous ace or any of his genius, if not grabbing his mind. It is a triumph dominated by the head that at other times would probably have been mistaken to a disgust. Opposite counteracts and attacks with all that determination and that Fe Munar, a day laborer (59º) who has challenged himself and is not willing to surrender. He does not do so at any moment, challenging the first ball the Balearic.

The neck is remaked and saved in the tiebreaker of the second set, 6-4 against him, and keeps the pulse in the final. Bravo for him. It happens that, at the time of truth, the mind and the overwhelming inertia of Alcaraz end up prevailing. The greater the trouble, the better is the reaction. Jannik Sinner knows, prior victim of a competitor who is incorporating the halo of who knows powerful, superior, entering that sphere that allows to gain encounters like this, so tight and of less brightness for their part, with that tool so fundamental that only the exceptional ones have: when the water reaches the neck, the best are unleashed.