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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":2,"featured_media":75839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[7639,46493,46492,6774,49,48,619,11045,82,593],"class_list":["post-75838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alcaraz","tag-alcaraz-vs-zverev","tag-alcaraz-zverev","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-cincinnati-masters","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}