Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz excelled to defeat Hamad Medjedovic, confronted Nardi to compete in the quarterfinals of Cincinnati Open.
Carlos Alcaraz did not take much time to reach 50 victories in the 2025 season when overtaking Hamad Medjedovic 6-4, 6-4 at Cincinnati Open on Tuesday night.
The world's No. 2 player maintains the calm under the hot sunshine of Ohio to have the 50th victory in the season, becoming the first player to do this in 2025 and extend the series of 13 consecutive victories at the Masters 1000 system.
After the battle, Carlos Alcaraz shared: “I know he is a very strong player. His shocks are extremely difficult to pay, there is a powerful serve. I know he doesn't like to move from left to right, so my plan is to make him run as much as possible.
Both Alcaraz and Medjedovic, who are 22 years old, are the former Next Gen ATP Finals. In the first games against the first match for the first time, the match took place. The turning point came in the seventh game when Medjedovic handed over 3-3: Serbia player saved three break points but made a double mistake at the decisive point, giving the opportunity to break up for Alcaraz.
At the end of set 1, Medjedovic must ask the doctor to treat neck pain and then choose to play fast attack to shorten the ball in set 2. He reclaims the break to balance 3-3 and even has superior winner (25 compared to 16 of Alcaraz).
However, this adventure style was unstable, and two consecutive broken shots in game 7 made him lose the break again. Alcaraz then kept the advantage, completed the victory in 95 minutes, successfully transformed 3/7 opportunities to break the game.
Owning the Masters 1000 victory chain with titles at Monte-Carlo and Rome, Alcaraz will meet the Italian tennis player Luca Nardi in the next round. Nardi led seeds No. 16 Jakub Mensik 6-2, 2-1 before the Czech rival gave up.
Both Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz have won tickets to ATP Finals and will compete in the world's No. 1 at the end of the year. Currently, Alcaraz is more than Sinner 1,500 points on the ATP Live Race To Turin rankings.
In another development, the seed No. 9 Androy RubleV continued the journey in the same branch against Alcaraz after passing the 3 -hour marathon that lasted 3 hours and 30 minutes before the seed No. 21 Alexei Popyrin in the Cincinnati strong sunshine. Rubleev won 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5, balancing the achievement against Popyrin to 2-2.