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Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) reacts after returning a shot against Alexander Zverev (GER) during the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect) <\/p>\nCarlos Alcaraz continued his sublime form as he advanced to his seventh consecutive ATP tour final after beating an ailing Alexander Zverev on Saturday at the Cincinnati Open. The 6-4, 6-3 saw Alcaraz set up a blockbuster final against Jannik Sinner, who he faced in the finals of Rome, Roland Garros and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) reacts after returning a shot against Alexander Zverev (GER) during the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect) <\/p>\n
Alcaraz came out firing in the semifinal clash, relentlessly attacking Zverev\u2019s forehand with heavy, high cross-court shots off his own wing. Zverev tried to fight back by taking his forehand down the line, avoiding Alcaraz\u2019s lethal patterns.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-3 in the first set, Alcaraz shifted gears and produced an inspired shot-making to snatch the set and open a break in the second. He briefly gifted it back with three straight double faults, but an injury-hampered Zverev was never able to mount a serious comeback.<\/p>\n
The German had suffered the injury during his quarter-final win against Ben Shelton on Friday. But on Saturday, he left the court for a medical timeout at 2-1 in the second and never looked in touch for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n
After the win, Alcaraz showed his heart on the camera with a small message for Zverev. He wrote: \u201cHappy for the final but feeling bad for Sascha. Wish you all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the on-court interview, the Spaniard also said he found it challenging to focus on his own game while worrying about Zverev\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n
“It’s never easy playing against someone that you know is not feeling 100 per cent. It’s even tougher when it comes from Sascha, such a great player, such a great person off the court. We have a really good relationship,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We started the match really good, playing good rallies, a good level of tennis. But then all of a sudden he started to feel bad. And then my focus, I was thinking about how he’s feeling, besides focusing on myself and playing good tennis. It was a really difficult situation for me and I just wish him all the best.”<\/p>\n
Alcaraz advanced to his ninth Masters 1000 final, but first on hard courts since lifting the Indian Wells title last year. He is also 16-0 in Masters 1000 tournaments this year, having won the titles in Monte-Carlo and Rome. At 22 years and three months, he is also the third-youngest player to reach nine Masters 1000 finals after Rafael Nadal (20) and Novak Djokovic (21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz continued his sublime form as he advanced to his seventh consecutive ATP tour final after beating…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[23874,89331,89330,3098,1466,87047,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-152513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-alcaraz-vs-zverev","10":"tag-alcaraz-zverev","11":"tag-alexander-zverev","12":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","13":"tag-cincinnati-masters","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042804286619738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}