Alcaraz sweeps Mannarino and gives himself the most desired match with Nadal

The sky is the limit for Carlos Alcaraz. The Murcian tennis player, the great hope for the future of Spanish tennis, made his debut with victory at the Mutua Madrid Open, and not just any triumph, but a beating against one of the classics of the circuit. The Frenchman Adrian Mannarino suffered in the first person the talent Alcaraz, who crushed him (6-4, 6-0) at the Manolo Santana Stadium until he was dismissed from the tournament in just over an hour of the game.Carlos, enormous in his game against Mannarino And even better in terms of the personality he exhibited at the Caja Mágica, he did not give his rival a choice and gets into the second round, where on Wednesday he will be measured neither more nor less than Rafael Nadal, five-time champion in Madrid, historical king of the Clay court and Alcaraz idol, as well as practically all Spaniards who now hope to begin to get excited to a similar degree with the tennis player from El Palmar. Nadal’s meeting already has a date, it will be on May 5, the same day that Alcaraz has reached the age of majority, 18 years old that appear on the DNI but not on the track, where he again demonstrated, in this case in the Caja Mágica and in a Masters 1000 -first victory in a tournament of this caliber-, that it is to do great things from now on. His right, with speeds reaching 160 km / h, is at the moment the epicenter of a complete game in which all the shots are seen. Mannarino could see it in a first set in which Carlos immediately went ahead and knew manage the lack of confidence of your rival, but especially in the second. The very young Spanish tennis player stepped over a veteran hardened in a thousand battles and endorsed him with a donut that is only proof of what is to come in the future with a tennis player called to do great things.«I will try not to give him the importance of the game and with whom I am going to play. For me playing with Rafa is going to be a dream come true, I have always wanted to measure myself against him and I will do so when I am 18 years old, “he said at the end of the game. Carlos faces many triumphs in the future, but on Wednesday against Rafa, he just has to learn and enjoy. He has earned it.