Tokyo.- The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz He did not seem weighed for his ankle problems this Sunday and dominated the American Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-4 to reach the semifinals of the tournament ATP 500 from Tokyo.
The world number 1 was injured his ankle during his entrance to Liza in the Japanese tournament and admitted in his next match that the injury had worried him and that he thought about her on the track.
This Sunday the Spanish played again with bandages, visible above his left average, and acknowledged after the game he adapted his style of play to protect the limb.
“I had to play more aggressive than normal because he wanted him to run more than me in this game,” Alcaraz said about his game strategy. “You could see that sometimes I was not as fast as I wanted, I am having precautions with the steps I take during the game.”
In an hour and 20 minutes, Alcaraz surpassed Nakashima (n.33) and was summoned on Monday in the semifinals against Casper Ruud (n.12).
“I’m not going to lie, I think I’ve played incredible today,” he said.
Alcaraz, who had given three breaks on Saturday against the Belgian Zizou Bergs, did not have so many concessions towards Nakashima, who broke the entrance service.
The American seemed to react on the second set, but Alcaraz achieved the break in the fifth game and, after missing three game balls in the ninth, closed the meeting with his service.
The Norwegian Casper Ruud, his rival in the semifinals, won 6-3, 6-2 to the Australian Aleksandar Vukic.
The other semifinal will face Americans Taylor Fritz (n.5) and Jenson Brooksby (n.86).
Pogacar gets its second world title
Double history: Tadej Pogacar entered a little more in legend mode this Sunday in Kigali by revalidating his world champion title, after attacking 104 kilometers for finishing in these first cycling World Cups in Africa.
“I cannot always attack 100 km of finish as last year” in Zurich, in his first title, he had assured the Slovenian before the race, in which he toured 66 kilometers alone.
Determined and without lowering the rhythm, even increasing it with the passage of the kilometers, the four -time winner of the Tour de France won with a comfortable margin of 1 minute and 28 seconds to the Belgian Remco Evenepoel.
