Carreño wins Altmaier and meets again with Djokovic

• Djokovic: "What happened in New York came to mind"

After having two sets of advantage over

and placing himself one set away from playing his first Grand Slam final in New York, far from accusing the blow,

is still under the inertia of his great performance at the Open from the United States, a tournament where he was also a semifinalist in 2017. At Roland Garros, a space in theory much more suitable for the natural conditions of his game, he returns to the quarterfinals for the second time, three years after leaving his match against

due to injury

when trailing 6-2 and 2-0.

This Monday he beat German

6-2, 7-5 and 6-2 and on Wednesday he will face

in search of a place in the semifinals.

The game has a high extra-sports component.

On September 7, in the round of 16 of the United States Open, the Serbian was disqualified when he was going to subtract with 6-5 in favor of Carreño in the first set after launching a ball of rage that ended up hitting involuntarily in the neck to a linesman.

It was a traumatic trance for Djokovic, who was seeking his fourth title in New York and eighteenth big.

Interestingly, in his game this Monday afternoon against

, the Belgrade hit a judge while trying to reach a serve from his rival.

Nothing reprehensible or worthy of punishment, however much it attracts attention.

"Oh my God!

Obviously, what happened in New York came to mind, but it was completely accidental.

I tried to look for him because his impact area was a little red.

I hope you are good".

The Flushing Meadows event will float over the Philippe Chatrier when the two meet for the fifth time.

Only Carreño, in those circumstances, broke the pristine career of Djokovic, who has won 35 games and four titles this season and dominates the head-to-head 4-1 between the two.

Daniel Altmaier, a debutant in the final

of a

, has joined the stream of neophytes who have made a career out of this tournament played under exceptional conditions due to the pandemic.

Little was known about the German before arriving here and sneaking into the eighth with victories as valuable as the one achieved in the previous round against

, seeded seventh.

A 22-year-old boy, 186th in the world, still relegated to adding merits in

tournaments

, who needed to gain muscle in the previous phase.

Change of location and time

The match, scheduled for the third shift of the day on the court

, second in the hierarchy, ended up being played indoors in the Philippe Chatrier, main venue, late at night, due to the persistent rain that devastated Paris during almost the entire day.

Nothing altered the spirits of Carreño, the seventeenth seed, who took advantage with an early break in the third game and widened it by breaking again in the next rest turn.

In the first match of his life on center court, Altmaier left the mark of fresh, brave tennis, with a one-handed backhand that managed to open some angles, but had a much more consistent player in front of him.

Carreño is a faithful supporter of the Spanish school, a man who has grown up on clay and handles well all the automatisms of the surface, although he has known how to adapt them and obtain magnificent results outside of it.

At 29 years old, and despite not having responded to what his talent announced, the man from Gijón is a fully mature tennis player, who usually puts a high price on his defeats.

Altmaier snapped up in the second set, sharpening his racket.

Thus it was able to serve to try to equalize the confrontation.

Carreño, puzzled by the added aggressiveness that his adversary had imposed on the game, returned to the set more because of the implicit haste than because of retaking the party's government.

It was a matter of putting up with Altmaier's retaliation and waiting for his mistake, as it came sooner or later.

Thus the Spanish reversed a delicate situation to position himself with a frank advantage of two sets.

Then, while his rival took a truce in the locker room, the Spaniard requested the presence of the doctor and took a pill.

He did not require physical attention.

He returned to the field and signed the victory without a doubt.

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