Third-seeded Carolos Alcaraz knocks out American Sebastian Korda, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, in a fun, fizzy match to reach the fourth round at the French Open.
Carlos Alcaraz swept past Sebastian Korda in an entertaining third-round match, 6-4, 7-6 , 6-3, at the French Open. The thrill of Carlos Alcaraz’s game is in its boyishness — he plays like an over-sugared kid entertaining himself by seeing at just how sharp of an angle he can approach a ball and still coax it over the net. For the same reason, playing him must feel like torture or cosmic injustice. Every shot seems like an experiment, but more often than not, the ball plops in.
“Today was I think more demanding match for me,” Alcaraz said. “At some point I forget about everything and I hit the forehand normally, let’s say.” Alcaraz, a 21-year-old, two-time Grand Slam champion, has had no such issues, playing all of his matches under a roof at Court Philippe-Chatrier, one of two courts with a retractable cover at Roland Garros. He has dropped only one set, too — to Jesper De Jong in his second-round match — and is one of a handful of contenders still alive in what’s considered the most wide-open men’s draw in about 20 years.It’s early, but only one of the top men’s seeds has fallen.
The upper echelon of the women’s draw has seen a touch more upheaval, with unseeded American Peyton Stearns upsetting 10th-seeded Daria Kasatkina on Thursday and ninth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko and 11th-seeded Danielle Collins also gone.
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