Queen's: Jaume Munar scares Carlos Alcaraz, but it’s not enough

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Jaume Munar came close to hitting the jackpot in the second round of the Queen&#8217s tournament, one of the most interesting events of the season on grass ahead of Wimbledon.

The ATP ranking number 59 in fact put Carlos Alcaraz, the tournament&#8217s number 1 seed as well as world number 2 and winner of the last Roland Garros, to the test. 6-4, 6-7(7), 7-5 the score, after nearly three and a half hours of play.

Alcaraz, who had beaten lucky loser Adam Walton with relative ease in the first round, quickly realized that the one against his compatriot would not be a walk in the park, although he was able to take advantage of today&#8217s only moment of weakness in his opponent in the first set, which ended with a score of 6-4 thanks to the break won in the third game.

Munar then raised the level of play in a very intense second set, in which, however, he needed no less than eight set points to even the score.

Alcaraz managed to avoid being broken at 4-5 and 5-6, but in the tie-break that decided the fraction he was unable to close out the match despite two match balls at his disposal at 6-4, going on to lose the mini-set 9-7.

At the start of the third set, the Murcian went ahead 2-0, portending an easier fraction than the others, but Munar responded like a champion, even winning four consecutive games to take a 4-2 lead. With his back against the wall, however, all the talent of Alcaraz emerged, who first recovered the break disadvantage and then avoided a new tie-break by winning the twelfth game, which proved decisive.

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