{"id":79841,"date":"2022-05-08T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T17:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/alcaraz-culmina-su-semana-fantastica-en-madrid\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:54:57","slug":"alcaraz-completes-a-perfect-week-in-madrid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/alcaraz-completes-a-perfect-week-in-madrid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz completes a perfect week in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong>\u2018s potential is limitless. The Spaniard has delighted his home fans by winning the Mutua Madrid Open, beating defending champion<strong>\u00a0Alexander Zverev<\/strong>\u00a0in two sets\u00a0<strong>(6-3, 6-1)<\/strong>\u00a0after 61 minutes. The No. 6 in the ATP Ranking as of Monday, has joined his compatriots Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafael Nadal in the event\u2019s winners\u2019 circle.<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0<strong>at 19 years and three days of age, the Murcia native is the youngest champion<\/strong>\u00a0in twenty editions of the Madrid tournament. With his crown in the Caja M\u00e1gica, Alcaraz now has two Masters 1000 titles to his name in 2022 after his win in Miami last month. He has three titles on clay this season after his ATP 500 wins in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona and he has a perfect record in ATP finals with six victories in siz matches.<\/p>\n<p>The added merit in the seventh seed\u2019s achievement is that he defeated Nadal (3) in the quarters, Djokovic (1) in the semis and Zverev (2) in the final. Against the world No. 3, Alcaraz recorded\u00a0<strong>the fastest win in an #MMOPEN final and the one with the fewest games conceded (4 games).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the decider in the Manolo Santana Stadium, Ferrero\u2019s understudy came flying out of the blocks to take the first set in just 31 minutes, breaking the German in the sixth game and losing just three points while serving.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Un momento INOLVIDABLE ??????<\/p>\n<p>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alcarazcarlos03?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alcarazcarlos03<\/a> culmin\u00f3 una semana estratosf\u00e9rica en la Caja M\u00e1gica. \u00a1Ha llegado para quedarse!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/69GpCIKHmZ\">pic.twitter.com\/69GpCIKHmZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen\/status\/1523365615762755585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The El Palmar-born player continued to chip away at the confidence of Sergi Bruguera\u2019s pupil with another break in the third game of the second set. Alcaraz refused to take his foot off the pedal and\u00a0<strong>delighted the crowd with an impressive range of shotmaking<\/strong>\u00a0that earned him two more breaks in the fifth and seventh games, ending any hope of a Zverev comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is<strong>\u00a0the tenth different champion in the twenty Mutua Madrid Opens played<\/strong>. Rafael Nadal leads the pack with five titles (2005, 2010, 2013-14 &amp; 2017), followed by Roger Federer (2006, 2009 &amp; 2012) and Novak Djokovic (2011, 2016 &amp;a 2019) with three each. Zverev (2018 &amp; 2021), with two, missed a chance to join them and remains tied with Andy Murray (2008 &amp; 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has added his name to those of other legends to have claimed the title at the Madrid tournament such as American player Andre Agassi (2002), his own coach Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003), Marat Safin (2004) and Argentina\u2019s David Nalbandian (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz\u2019s dominance on clay this season continues, increasing his record to 16 wins and one defeat, which came in his opener in Monte Carlo.\u00a0<strong>This gives him a 94% win rate, the highest on tour on the surface<\/strong>, making him one of the favourites for the upcoming Masters 1000 in Rome and the French Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u2018s potential is limitless. The Spaniard has delighted his home fans by winning the Mutua Madrid Open, beating defending champion\u00a0Alexander Zverev\u00a0in two sets\u00a0(6-3, 6-1)\u00a0after 61 minutes. The No. 6 in the ATP Ranking as of Monday, has joined his compatriots Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafael Nadal in the event\u2019s winners\u2019 circle. In addition,\u00a0at 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,824,837],"tags":[842,825,840,859,831,841],"class_list":["post-79841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-tenis-masculino-en","category-noticias-mutua-en","category-noticias-tenis-en","tag-alexander-zverev-en-2","tag-atp-en-2","tag-carlos-alcaraz-en-2","tag-mmopen-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en-2","tag-tenis-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80986,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79841\/revisions\/80986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}