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Through his social channels, the former tennis player Paul McNamee clarified that, in his opinion, Carlos Alcaraz is now ready to try to win Wimbledon. Alcaraz beat a champion from Queen’s such as Dimitrov, a tennis player used to playing on grass and therefore has shown that he can also compete on this surface.
Paul explained on social media: “Alcaraz’s victory over Dimitrov is excellent, we are talking about a former Queen’s champion and an expert on grass tournaments. This win will greatly raise expectations for Alcaraz at Wimbledon.” A sentence and the hope that the Spaniard can create a rivalry against Serbian rule.
Carlitos’ wins at Queen’s
Carlos Alcaraz is all-in again. The Spanish tennis player wins the Queen’s tournament by beating Alex De Minaur in the final with the result of 6-4, 6-4. Fifth title of the season, first title on grass for a player who tasted this surface for the first time on the ATP circuit only last year and back at the top of the ranking, overtaking Novak Djokovic again.
In the first set, each service game is a potential turning point of a set which, in fact, is balanced: no break point until the eighth hunger, where the top seed is forced to save two. Alcaraz replies immediately, for which one is enough to conquer that single advantage that is needed to direct the first set: when he goes to serve for the partial, he concedes only one point before filing.
In the second set, the Spaniard raises the level, allowing a few less unforced errors, although the drop shots don’t always work as they should. And yet, even the second set is decided by a single break, conquered in the fifth set still taking advantage of a single break point.
At the Halle tournament, Alexander Bublik beat Andrey Rublev in three sets, with the result 6-3, 3-6, 6-3: the Kazakh-born Russian tennis player thus won the first ATP 500 title of his career, after an indoor ATP 250. Favored over the Russian for the surface on which to play, the second set is an empty pass typical of Bublik’s mentality, who, however, concedes only one break point in the third, canceled, to close the match and win the most important trophy of his career .
In the WTA 250 tournament in Birmingham, Jelena Ostapenko triumphed: the Estonian beat Krejcikova in the final with the result of 7-6, 6-4. The tie-break of the first set, played with a total of 18 points, is decisive for the second set, which closes in just over half an hour compared to the time of the first set.
