Alcaraz wins Queen's Club Championships title, regains No.1 in statement ahead of Wimbledon

Sunday, 25 June 2023 at 16:24

Carlos Alcaraz has won the first title of his career on grass. The player from Murcia has beaten Alex de Minaur in two sets (6-4/6-4) in the final of Queen's Club Championships, which allows him to regain the world number 1 and face Wimbledon as top seed.

In the first set, De Minaur played a very aggressive game, not sparing Carlos every time he came up short, but the player from Murcia was very solid with his serve and was able to break the Australian's serve on one occasion.

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Carlos Alcaraz was one hundred per cent effective in break points in the first set: one chance and one ball won. The second set started with the same dynamic, with an aggressive de Miñaur in the return and Alcaraz not quite managing to impose the pace that suited him, although he was very solid when the games played their decisive points.

However, in the fifth game of the second set he took a step forward and took advantage of his second break point to take a 3-2 lead and a break up in the second set.

Carlos played the next game with great composure despite the fact that De Miñaur squeezed the rest. Thus, the player from Murcia was two games away from victory. In his next game with his serve, he didn't fail either. Tremendous his solvency in a surface in which he accumulates so few matches. He ended up closing his final serve and winning the match by 6-4.

Gunning for Djokovic at Wimbledon

With much solvency, Carlitos Alcaraz won his first tournament on grass at Queen's and in the process assured himself to be number 1 in the world next week and the start of Wimbledon. Undoubtedly with this triumph the young Spanish player sends a message to Novak Djokovic: what happened at Roland Garros is in the past, I'm going all out at the All England Club.

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