Carlos Alcaraz blitzes Tallon Griekspoor for 200th win, advances to QFs in Beijing | ATP Tour

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Alcaraz blitzes Griekspoor for two hundredth win, advances to QFs in Beijing

Second seed faces Khachanov for spot in final 4 

September 29, 2024

Successful is one thing that Carlos Alcaraz has change into accustomed to on the ATP Tour. It’s now second nature for the 21-year-old, who has simply surpassed one other milestone.

The second seed’s complete 6-1, 6-2 conquer Tallon Griekspoor within the second spherical of the China Open on Sunday constituted a two hundredth tour-level win for Alcaraz, who turned the third participant born within the 2000s to realize this feat, becoming a member of Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger-Aliassime. 

“I’m actually joyful about it – 200 wins is a good quantity,” Alcaraz stated of his newest achievement. “However I’m already on the lookout for the third hundred. I simply need to maintain going, to maintain rolling. I’m trying ahead to taking part in matches and to maintain doing the issues that I’m doing.”

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Regardless of the one-sided rating of their Lexus ATP Head2Head collection, which is now 4-0 in favour of the Spaniard, the standard of shotmaking was palpable. It was lights out tennis from the off, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the No. 3 within the PIF ATP Rankings took a stranglehold on the match.

Alcaraz gained 100 per cent of first-serve factors (23/23), in line with Infosys ATP Stats, through the 57 minute encounter. The Dutchman got here unstuck due to the craft and guile deployed by his youthful opponent.

The Spaniard, who has 15 tour-level titles to his title, will face seventh seed Karen Khachanov within the quarter-finals in Beijing with the hopes of extending his 3-0 lead of their Lexus ATP Head2Head collection.

Alcaraz fell brief on the semi-final stage in final 12 months’s match, however shall be keen to maintain up with Sinner within the battle to complete as ATP 12 months-Finish No. 1 introduced by PIF. The Italian is at present in pole place within the PIF ATP Dwell Race To Turin, 2,990 factors away from third-placed Alcaraz.