Carlos Alcaraz battles past Ramos in Rome

Albert Ramos has given Carlos Alcaraz trouble in the past but the Spaniard was able to overcome his compatriot today with relative ease despite a slow start at the Rome Open.

Alcaraz and Ramos played a very crazy match last year at Roland Garros with the older Spaniard almost beating the up-and-coming youngsters. Today looked eerily similar for a while as Ramos took an early break and held it for a few games before Alcaraz finally stormed back and made it 3-3.

From there we saw the players winning their serves for a few games but eventually, Alcaraz jumped out ahead and closed out the opening set 6-4. It was a really aggressive showing from him as he posted 16 winners to only 7 unforced errors. The second set was even more impressive from him as he put Ramos under a lot of pressure.

Ramos tried to match Alcaraz with an increased level of aggressiveness but it backfired badly because that's not his game. He had 12 unforced errors in only 7 games of play bowing out 1-6 in the second set.