Carlos Alcaraz exceeds Van de Zandschulp in his debut in Rotterdam

Carlos Alcaraz current world number 3, debuted with Victoria, 7-6 (3), 3-6 and 6-1, before the Dutch Botic van de Zandschulp (84), in the first round of Rotterdam ATP 500. The winner of the duel between the Canadian will be measured Happy Auger-aliassime and the Italian Andrea Vavassori In the round of 16.

Alcaraz thus adds his third victory against the Dutch on the particular face to face (3-1), despite the fact that in the last duel they go from Zandschulp eliminated that of the Palmar in the second round of the last Open of the United States, in three sets (6-1, 7-5, 6-4).

In addition, Wageningen’s was the one who beat Nadal In the last meeting of the Balearic in his career in the final between the Davis Cup in Malaga for a double 4-6 in the quarterfinals that crossed Spain already Netherlands.

The Murcian began the encounter with an aggressive but precipitated game, with excess risk from the track bottom and abusing the volley, which led him to lose the service in the third game, and forced him to traile the rest of the rest of the set.

Carlos’s failures

In front he had a Dutch giant with very clear ideas: to rely on his reverse to get out of the trouble and ‘crush’ with the right the balls to the rival’s half -track, a patient and fissure wall that awaited Carlos’s failures.

The rupture of Van de Zandschulp to the Murcian in the fifth game seemed definitive for the set, however Alcaraz replied and took the rival to Tie-Break, where he won 7-3 comfortably.

The second set started with fright for the Palmar, who had to save two breakfast balls before a slightly more aggressive and very aggressive Dutch on track.

Van de Zandschulp ended up breaking the Alcaraz service, again in the fifth game, in the face of the despair of Spanish, who saw as little by little his rival was eating ground and did not give up his serve.

Always to tow, the Murcia tried to return to the scoreboard, but unlike the first set, the Dutch was more integer with his serve and dissipated any hope of Carlos’s comeback with a final 6-3.

The manga for the tiebreaker could not start better for Alcaraz, than mentally and more successful with the right began sending 3-0 in the score against a Van de Zandschulp without solutions or reaction.

The rhythm of the world number three had risen considerably, especially in the right -wing duel in which he is always so comfortable, in addition to improving his service benefits.

With 4-1 in favor, the Spanish managed to break the Dutch and definitely kill the game, who only had an owner in a third set that ended 6-1 and a match that lasted 2 hours and 27 minutes.

In the Spanish eighteenth -round -term duel, 44 of the world was imposed Pedro Martínez -For 6-3 and 6-2- a Roberto Bautista (52) and will face the winner of the match between the Danish meeting in the next round Holger Rune (World 14) and Italian Lorenzo Sonego (34).