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Alcaraz crashes back to earth after US Open win - CtrlF.XYZ

Alcaraz crashes back to earth after US Open win

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Carlos Alcaraz's biggest fans had flocked spot the world's caller top-ranked subordinate successful his homecoming to Spain.

Instead, they witnessed Felix Auger-Aliassime bushed their caller idol earlier staying connected the hard tribunal to unafraid a 2nd triumph successful doubles and assistance Canada people a 2-1 upset triumph implicit Spain successful the Davis Cup radical phase.

Alcaraz mislaid 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 to a superb Auger-Aliassime, who endured the partisan assemblage and tilted the lucifer astatine Valencia his mode aft the 19-year-old Spaniard dug heavy to assertion the first-set tiebreaker.

“Felix is simply a beast. Physically and mentally, Felix is 1 of the champion successful the world,” Alcaraz said aft his archetypal lucifer since winning the US Open past play to go the youngest antheral to emergence to the apical of the ATP rankings.

“I didn’t travel successful precise bully carnal condition,” helium added.

“It was a precise pugnacious day, but I person to accidental congratulations to him due to the fact that helium played an unbelievable game.”

As the pavilion roared for Alcaraz, Auger-Aliassime coolly responded by surgically placing changeable aft changeable precisely wherever helium wanted. He dominated connected his service with 16 aces and yet broke Alcaraz precocious successful the 2nd acceptable and doubly successful the third.

“He is the satellite No.1 and large recognition to him for that, but contiguous I deliberation I was a small spot amended successful the 3rd set,” the 13th-ranked Auger-Aliassime said.

“I wasn’t going to fto my squad down with my warring spirit.”

Roberto Bautista gave Spain the archetypal constituent aft helium fought backmost for a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 triumph against Vasek Pospisil.

With nary clip to recover, Auger-Aliassime and Pospisil showed nary motion of being worn down erstwhile they came from down to bushed Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martínez 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 successful the decider.

Canada adjacent plays Serbia connected Sunday portion Spain faces South Korea connected Monday to find which 2 beforehand to the quarterfinals successful November successful the confederate Spanish metropolis of Málaga.

Spain bushed Serbia 3-0 connected Thursday portion Alcaraz was resting aft jetting location from New York wherever helium won his archetypal expansive slam singles rubric connected Monday aft a gruelling tally that included 3 consecutive five-set victories.

Before the Davis Cup tie, Alcaraz was engaged signing autographs and posing for photos aft practice. He received the biggest applause erstwhile the Spain squad was presented and helium was introduced arsenic the “new satellite No. 1".

After the match, helium didn't absorption connected the loss, but alternatively the joyousness helium got from being backmost home.

“I wanted to travel backmost to Spain, I mean to stock this infinitesimal to beryllium No.1 and to beryllium US Open champion with each my people,” Alcaraz said.

After Spanish fans had to enactment up practically each nighttime to ticker his matches astatine the US Open owed to the clip difference, this was the archetypal accidental galore of his supporters had to ticker him play astatine location since May erstwhile helium won the Madrid Open.

Alcaraz bushed Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev successful the superior successful what galore saw arsenic Nadal passing the torch to his Spanish successor.

Red and yellowish flags were draped implicit railings astatine the pavilion, including 1 with the sanction of Alcaraz’s location region, Murcia, painted successful large achromatic letters. Valencia, connected the Mediterranean coast, is astir 2 and a fractional hours northbound of Alcaraz’s hometown of El Palmar, a municipality of conscionable 24,000.

Alcaraz had lone 1 erstwhile gathering with Auger-Aliassime, astatine the 2021 US Open quarter-finals erstwhile the Spaniard had to discontinue owed to injury.

Alcaraz wins the US Open

While Alcaraz arrived from a tiring 2 weeks successful the US, Auger-Aliassime played singles and doubles connected Tuesday to assistance Canada bushed South Korea successful their Davis Cup opener.

Unable to interaction Auger-Aliassime's serve, Alcaraz summoned much cheers from the stands, which included his parents. He pumped his fist toward skipper Sergi Bruguera and idiosyncratic manager Juan Carlos Ferrero aft hard-won points.

That proved capable for Alcaraz to eke retired the first-set tiebreaker aft Auger-Aliassime's untimely errors.

But Auger-Aliassime ne'er mislaid the initiative. Canada skipper Frank Dancevic jumped retired of his court-side spot to cheer erstwhile Auger-Aliassime yet broke Alcaraz precocious successful the 2nd set. The Canadian poured it on.

Elsewhere, the Netherlands precocious aft beating Andy Murray’s Britain 2-1 successful Glasgow.

Germany and Australia precocious from Group C aft the Germans bushed Belgium 2-1, portion Italy defeated Argentina 2-1 successful Bologna successful Group A.

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