Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, who at simply 21 years of age has 4 Grand Slam singles titles on his spectacular resume, knocked off Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-4 on the BNP Paribas Open on Monday evening.
Alcaraz, the second seed on the Indian Wells outside match and ranked third on the earth, wanted simply 84 minutes to get rid of Shapovalov and punch his ticket to the spherical of 16, the place he’ll face the winner of a match between Gael Monfils of France and Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.
The Spaniard will likely be seeking to win his fifteenth consecutive match on the ATP Masters 1000 occasion
Despite the fact that Alcaraz had extra unforced errors (17-15) than his opponent from Richmond Hill, Ont., he solely had 5 double faults and had an enormous benefit in first serve proportion (73 to 54). He gained eight of 9 service video games, and 4 of 9 return video games.
Shapovalov had two aces, eight double faults and gained 5 of 9 service video games and solely one in every of 9 return video games.
“I do know he (Shapovalov) began the season actually robust, exhibiting actually good tennis with the title in Dallas, taking part in good tennis in Acapulco, so I knew that I needed to begin the match actually robust, actually centered on my issues, on the extent,” Alcaraz stated in his post-match interview.
“Attempt to play good tennis, good rallies firstly simply to get the great tempo, to return into the match. I noticed that it was going to be a extremely good and troublesome battle, so simply actually proud of the best way that I began the match.”
The Canadian superior to the third spherical of the California match with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Australian Adam Walton on Saturday.
