Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the Wimbledon semifinals by beating unseeded Cam Norrie, the final British participant in both singles bracket, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday.
Alcaraz prolonged his career-best profitable streak to 23 matches — the longest tour-level win streak by any man age 22 or youthful since Juan Martin del Potro received 23 straight matches in 2008 from Stuttgart to the US Open as a 19-year-old.
The second-seeded Alcaraz turned simply the second Spanish participant in historical past to succeed in the lads’s singles semifinals at Wimbledon on three events — the opposite was Rafael Nadal.
Alcaraz, making his fifth essential draw look, improved to 23-2 at Wimbledon; amongst males to debut within the Open period, solely Bjorn Borg has extra match wins in his first 5 appearances on the All England Membership.
After Norrie held serve to open the match on Centre Courtroom, Alcaraz took management by rattling off the following 5 video games in opposition to the left-hander.
He blazed by means of the opening set in 28 minutes, most of the Centre Courtroom seats nonetheless empty as followers sought refreshment after watching Aryna Sabalenka’s 2-hour-and-54-minute quarterfinal victory.
Alcaraz by no means let Norrie into the match — going through solely 5 break factors and saving all of them. He compiled 39 winners and 13 aces to go along with 26 unforced errors.
“To have the ability to play one other semifinal right here at Wimbledon is tremendous particular,” Alcaraz mentioned in an on-court interview after ending off the quarterfinal match in 1 hour, 39 minutes.
Alcaraz received 89% of his first-serve factors in opposition to Norrie, the best mark in any main match of his younger profession.
He’ll face No. 5 American Taylor Fritz for a spot within the closing.
Alcaraz is trying to change into the fourth man ever to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the identical yr a number of instances. He would be part of Borg (3 instances: 1978-80), Rod Laver (1962, 1969) and Nadal (2008, 2010).
ESPN Analysis, The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this report.