Luca Nardi stays in Cincinnati: Jakub Mensik knocked out, now Carlos Alcaraz

Luca Nardi takes a resounding eighth final at the Cincinnati Masters 1000 at the end of a challenge with the much more emblazoned Jakub Mensik, who, however, is forced to raise the white flag due to injury. In fact, the Czech, number 17 in the ATP rankings abandoned the challenge still in full swing after, however, losing the first set badly. At the time of the stop, the result was 6-2, 2-1.

The fresh 22-year-old from Pesaro, who arrived in Cincinnati as a lucky loser, immediately put Mensik in trouble, however, who came to the challenge not at his best and was punished in a first game that lasted less than half an hour. Already in the first game it was Nardi break, then in the last three the Czech did not put up a single point showing the colossal problems he faced in his haunted Tuesday on Ohio’s concrete.

The Czech did not put up a single point.

The second game, on the other hand, lasted 17 minutes, with Nardi able to take an additional break for the 2-1 point that represented the stop to Mensik’s match. For the Marche player, it is the second time ever in a Masters 1000 round of 16, which will see him opposing none other than the great Carlos Alcaraz.

For Nardi, it is the exclamation point on a sensational week, which has already seen him prevail over Thiago Agustin Tirante and Denis Shapovalov in a tournament he was not even supposed to enter in the main draw. Now the challenge to Alcaraz, in a dream that the 2003-born pesaro hopes to extend a few more days.