Carlos Alcaraz pulls off a great match against Marin Cilic in his debut at Qatar Open 2025

This Monday. Carlos Alcaraz made his debut at the Qatar Open 2025. The Spaniard came to the event as number 1 seed. Jannik Sinner's doping sanction prevents the Italian from playing this tournament.

The challenge for Carlitos was not easy. In front of him was Marin Cilic, always dangerous. After a very entertaining match, Alcaraz was able to overcome the difficult challenge of the Croatian, and qualify for the second round of the tournament by a score of 6-4, 6-4.

FIRST SET

The match started very crazy. First, Alcaraz managed to break Cilic's serve in the opening game. But he could not confirm the break. The Croatian gave him a taste of his own medicine, and the tie returned to the scoreboard. 1-1.

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Equality was maintained until 3-3. With Cilic on serve, Alcaraz had up to 5 break balls. On the fifth, the Spaniard got ahead on the scoreboard, and confirmed the break with his serve. After 5-3, Cilic cut to 5-4, and Carlitos served to win the first set, which he closed by 6-4.

SECOND SET

After the exciting battle of the first set, the second set started again with Marin Cilic on serve. Despite the huge number of break points in the first set, this second set would take a long time to arrive. In fact, there were none until 3-4 in favor of the Croatian.

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With Carlos Alcaraz on serve, Cilic was 0-40. Three break balls at the key moment of the set. However, the Spaniard managed to turn the situation around, winning 5 points in a row to put the score at 4-4.

This was going to hurt Cilic a lot. In the next game, the 'moméntum' was going to take advantage of Alcaraz. Carlitos was 15-40 up, with two break balls. In the second, he got the most important break of the match. With 5-4 up, he served to win and advance to the second round of the Qatar Open. Alcaraz did not fail, and defeated Cilic after a very exciting match.

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