Carlos Alcaraz made his big debut at Wimbledon with a victory in five sets against the Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama, after more than four hours of play. Confident in his possibilities and facing each point, game and set as a physical, tennis and mental battle, Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil was able to raise his arms in his debut on the London grass and meets Daniil Medvedev in the second round.
At the age of 18, Alcaraz put his feet on the grass at Wimbledon for the first time, in the absolute category, and despite his inexperience on the surface, he had a meteoric start, in which he gave no respite to an Uchiyama who reached the final table as a lucky looser , benefited by the loss of last minute of the North American Paul . The first set went to the hands of Carlos, who in the midst of the madness of the second, ended up giving up after six breaks and a tie-break in which Uchiyama, eleven years older than Alcaraz, drew on experience to equalize the contest.
Superior in tennis and seeing how his groundstrokes ran more and more, Alcaraz went ahead again with an unappealable 6-2 that placed him at the gates of the second round, but a single break in the fourth quarter gave the victory to Uchiyama , postponing the resolution to the fifth. There, in his first decisive set as a professional, Carlos pulled off talent and claw to, four hours and 18 minutes later and with a 6-3, raise his arms for the first time at Wimbledon, another of the Grand Slams that aim to see greats things about the tennis player from El Palmar.
The scream of Carlos Alcaraz.
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Medvedev awaits him in the second round
In the second round of Wimbledon , Alcaraz will face one of the great candidates for the title, Russian Daniil Medvedev , who last week was proclaimed winner of the ATP 250 tournament in Mallorca. The Russian got rid of the always complicated Struff in the first round and faces as a clear favorite a match in which Carlos must learn, compete and, above all, enjoy.
