Alcaraz falls in Doha before an inspired Leheckka

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz ceded (6-3, 3-6, 6-4) this Thursday against Czech Jiri Leheckka in the quarterfinals of the Doha ATP 500 tournament, seeing his streak braking before a rival who arrived equally inspired by This first section of 2025.

The El Palmar, a recent champion in Róterdam, fell into the test of a Lehecka champion in Brisbane and had been accumulating many victories in a season where he wants to confirm in the ‘top 20’ of the circuit. Alcaraz, who already had the scare of the Italian Luca Nardi in the previous round, was forced to respond without finding the march more in a tight outcome.

And it is that the Czech, who eliminated Rafa Nadal last year of his last participation in the mutual Madrid Open, began brave and with the cold mind to turn a ‘break’ against and sign up for the first manga (3- 6). Alcaraz responded in the second set with a much more reliable game with his serve, without giving opportunities for ‘break’ and taking advantage of the only one.

Confirmed the rupture (4-1), the Murcia continued to refine the machine for a third set where they both demonstrated their great state of form. The Czech saved a first ‘break’ ball and, in the fifth game, of great exchange of impossible blows, the Spanish broke his rival to bring victory closer.

However, Leheckka gave the rest and recovered his serve in the eighth game to keep the battle at the highest level (4-4). The number 25 in the world returned to a powerful and right right to even turn the partial and sign its first victory against a ‘top 3’ with the party point to the rest. The Italian Matteo Berrettini or the British Jack Draper will be his rival in ‘Semis’.