PARIS — It is robust sufficient for any participant to take care of Carlos Alcaraz on the French Open. While you’re not at your very best towards the defending champion, as was the case for Tommy Paul within the quarterfinals Tuesday night time, there is no probability.
No. 2 seed Alcaraz returned to the semifinals at Roland-Garros for the third consecutive 12 months with a 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 victory over No. 12 Tommy Paul, who had his proper thigh closely taped and was unable to run, serve or hit groundstrokes at full pressure.
It took simply 52 minutes for Alcaraz to gather the primary two units. The 22-year-old Spaniard compiled a 23-5 edge in winners in that span, and the ultimate totals had been 40-13.
Issues obtained extra aggressive within the third set, which Paul led 4-3 as some spectators at Court docket Philippe-Chatrier chanted his first identify. However Alcaraz grabbed the following three video games to wrap issues up after a bit greater than 1 1/2 hours.
Alcaraz, in search of his fifth Grand Slam trophy, is the primary reigning males’s champion in Paris to get again to the semifinals the following 12 months since 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal in 2021.
He improved to 20-1 on crimson clay this season and leads the boys’s tour with 35 wins and three titles.
Alcaraz’s opponent within the semifinals will probably be No. 8 Lorenzo Musetti, who eradicated No. 15 Frances Tiafoe in 4 units earlier Tuesday. The final two males’s quarterfinals are Wednesday: No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. unseeded Alexander Bublik, and No. 3 Alexander Zverev vs. 24-time main champion Novak Djokovic.
Paul, a semifinalist on the 2023 Australian Open, and Tiafoe, a two-time semifinalist on the U.S. Open, had been the primary American males to get to the spherical of eight at Roland-Garros since Andre Agassi in 2003 – and the primary pair to take action in the identical 12 months since Jim Courier and Pete Sampras in 1996.
Since Agassi accomplished his profession Grand Slam by successful the French Open in 1999, U.S. males at the moment are 1-60 towards opponents ranked within the prime 10 on the clay-court event.