Miami Open 2022: Alcaraz’s next challenge: win two games in a row to the ‘top 10’ in the same tournament

CCarlos Alcaraz opened his record of victories against the ‘top 10’ on September 3 in the third round of the US Open against Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Since then, he has added five more wins: another against Tsitsipas, at the Miami Open, another two with Matteo Berrettini (Vienna 2021 and Rio 2022), against Jannik Sinner (Pars-Bercy 2021) and the last one today with Hubert Hurkacz.

Thus, Alcaraz presents in his statistics six games won and many others lost against the top ten in the ranking.

Casper Ruud awaits him in the final on Sunday, the seventh ATP racketso the Murcian is facing the challenge of defeating two ‘top 10’ consecutively and in the same tournament for the first time.

His triumph against Hurkacz sends the Pole to fourteenth place in the listsbeing surpassed precisely by Carlos, twelfth.

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