Alcaraz finishes Musetti with a double 6-2 and is already in the Beijing quarterfinals

Carlos Alcaraz beat Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and 20 minutes to reach the quarterfinals of the China Open held in Beijing.

The transalpine began by endorsing a 40-0 to the current number two in the world ranking and who is seeking on the Chinese circuit to close the gap with the first in the classification, a Novak Djokovic who will not score points in the Asian giant.

Alcaraz returned the perfect play to Musetti in his second return, with which he achieved the first advantage of the afternoon, which he expanded in the fifth game and served to sentence the opening set, leaving behind several exchanges that inflamed the spirits of the spectators on the center court of the Diamond Arena.

The clash resumed with a new break in favor of the Murcian, who knew how to take advantage of his first turn at serve in return for a Musetti who depended excessively on his second serve.

Ruud in quarters

A new break by Alcaraz in the fifth game was enough to repeat the result of the first set in the second, and allow the Spaniard to break the tie in his favor in the individual matches between the two on the ATP circuit after this third duel in which they are involved.

Alcaraz will face the Norwegian Casper Ruud, seventh seed, in the quarterfinals of the China Open, who beat the Argentine Tomás Martín Etcheverry 6-1, 5-7 and 6-7(7) in 2 hours and 57 minutes on the Lotus track of the capital complex where this ATP 500 tournament is held.

The controversy of the balls

“Today (Ruud) had a really difficult game. I'll take that as an advantage for my match tomorrow. “He's probably a little tired,” said the Murcian at the conclusion of his duel.

Even so, Alcaraz clarified that his future rival “is a really tough player”, so he defended that he will have to show his “best level” and will try not to let the Norwegian dominate.

The Spaniard also wanted to assess the controversy surrounding the tournament's balls, and declared that he actually felt the difference “from the first training session in Beijing”, although he stressed that it is something that tennis players “have to get used to” by changing them each time. tournament.