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Alcaraz lost their second consecutive final

Published:2022-08-01 By Vy Anh(MetaSports) Comments
Croatiacarlos Alcaraz lost to Jannik Sinner 7-6 (5), 1-6, 1-6 in the final of Croatia Open Umag on July 31.

In just eight days, Alcaraz failed in two finals. Last week, 19-year-old tennis player lost Lorenzo Musetti 4-6, 7-6, 4-6 at ATP 500 lands in Hamburg.

In the ATP 250 series at Umag, without fully recovered ankle injuries, Alcaraz has won the first set and has a chance of two-0 set sets. But the Spanish lacrosse guy missed six break-point at the second game. Since then, Alcaraz won one of the 11 games at the end of the game and lost Sinner.

Unable to win his fifth title of the season, but Alcaraz still made a new milestone by overcoming Stefanos Tsitsipas to finish in the top 4 on the ATP points table. Last week, he was the second youngest player in history, after Rafael Nadal, to reach the top 5 in the world in the 21st century. Only three teenage tennis players have ever been in the ATP top 5 this century. Besides Alcaraz and Nadal, Djokovic did it in 2007 at the age of 19–11 months.

Alcaraz began the season with the number 32 world. You advance the ranks of winning four in the final five games, including two hundred Masters 1000. The Spanish arms are in the four lines of Roland Garros and Wimbledon. At Grand Slam lawn, you also to lose Sinner after four set.

Prior to winning at Umag, Sinner had never been to the finals this season. It was also the Italian's first championship on clay, and the sixth of his career. This year, the world No. 10 won all eight encounters against Spanish opponents.

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