Roland Garros 2024: Alcaraz – Tsitsipas live
The last minute of Alcaraz – Tsitsipas live:
Good afternoon and welcome to another day Roland Garros! Carlos Alcaraz’s first trial by fire in Paris. The Murcian showed confidence in the last two games against the seeds. Sebastien Korda (27) and Felix Auger-Aliassime (21), plays today Grand Slam quarter-finals in view of Stefanos Tsitsipas, second match on clay against top 10, after falling a month ago in the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Open against Rublev.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, Monte Carlo champion and Conde de Godó finalist, will be his opponent on the way to the semi-finals of Roland Garros. Greek, number 9 in the rankingcomes with balance 17 wins and three losses on clay this season. One of the best on the track this season. reaching the quarterfinals of three major tournaments: Monte Carlo, Rome and now Paris.he failed only in Madrid, where he said goodbye at the first opportunity.
Before the Hellenes, The Murcian has a great factor in his favor, as this adds the most favorable balance of confrontations against the top 10. Even in El Palmar and the Greek met each other five times, and all of them ended in victory for the world number three.. His last kara-kara dates back to quarterfinals of the last edition of the second “major” season, a meeting in which Alcaraz won in three sets scores 6-2, 6-1 and 7-6(5). However, everything has changed a lot in a year. After a mediocre 2023, Tsitdipas arrived in Paris looking to restart his career and the Spaniard was the star of the tournament, the heavy favorite for many after riding the clay court circuit with wins in Barcelona and Madrid.
A year later, with Djokovic drops out of the tournament, Alcaraz and Sinner are favorites to win the Musketeers CupHowever, the two could meet ahead of time, in a hypothetical semi-final if the Spaniard beats the Greek. Moreover, they are the only ones who are so They only gave up one set during the tournament. Tsitsipas follows closely with two sets. after losing a set to the Italian in the second round and another in the round of 16. Matteo Arnaldi, despite the fact that he also delivered a solid performance.
The 25-year-old Greek, who also plays doubles draw with brother Petrosis having one of his best seasons in Paris with a mission to win his first Grand Slam since having lost two finals, one of them in the French capital in 2021. Bye, Alcaraz will be looking to achieve his best result at the tournament after narrowly missing out on reaching the final last year after losing to Novak Djokovic. and with him the goal is to raise your third “major”, after winning in US Open in 2022 and Wimbledon in 2023.