A tennis lesson. Carlos Alcarazholding the title to Roland Garros, swept the American Tommy Paul this Tuesday, June 3 in the quarterfinals of the Parisian tournament, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4, in just one hour and 34 minutes of play.
“I could even have closed my eyes, everything was going into the short,” he savor the microphone of Mats Wilander after the meeting. I tried different blows and everything was walking 100 %. It is one of the matches where everything worked well, all the balls remained between the lines. »»
Obviously impatient to end it, Carlos Alcaraz hastened to almost every change side to find his place on the court, multiplying the small races as if to report to his opponent that he was ready and far from being physically touched. Despite better resistance in the third round and four games marked, Tommy Paul never found the solution. “I imagine that you wanted the match to last longer, smiled Carlos Alcaraz to the Parisian public, but I have a job to do!” »»
Paul and Alcaraz had already played in recent months and, if the Spaniard had won it each time, the scores had been much tighter. In the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tournament in 2024, the Spaniard won when he had lost the 1st set (5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2). A few weeks later, in Paris at the Olympic Games, he won in two rounds (6-3, 7-6). But this evening, Tommy Paul, seeded number 12 of this tournament, semi-finalist of the Masters 1000 in Rome a few weeks ago, did not exist.
For Carlos Alcaraz, this is the most impressive match of his fortnight. At the previous three laps, facing Fábián Marozsán, Damir Džumhur then in Ben Shelton, he had lost a set each time. “I always say that this tournament is very special for me,” he concluded. I am very happy to be in the semi-finals again ”. He will find Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the next round Who got out of Frances Tiafoe.
