Alcaraz imposes his courage against Kecmanovic and will seek the final against Hurkacz

said

after

in the round of 16 that it had been tough (he raised an adverse 5-2 in the first set), but fun.

It gives the impression that the boy still conceives tennis as a game, that it does not fit in his philosophy that it is a mere Stajanovist exercise.

That was the case again against

, who posed more difficulties than expected to become the first tennis player to manage to play the semifinals of Indian Wells and Miami consecutively without having turned 19 years old.

The Spanish, 14th favorite, won 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 7-6 (5), in two hours and 23 minutes, and will seek

(at one o'clock next morning, televised by Vamos ), defender of the title and executioner of Daniil Medvedev, his first final of a Masters 1000. The other place in the final will be played by Casper Ruud and Francisco Cerúndolo.

It was a formidable match, between two players called to repeat confrontations of the highest voltage.

Firm in his approaches, convinced of a way of understanding tennis that does not allow turning back, Alcaraz, who shot three dropshots in the final tiebreaker, defeated an opponent of indomitable appearance, who demanded everything from him and had 5-3 and service, to be two points from victory for the second time, as he had already done when he was 15-30 and five games to four.

Alcaraz has more than earned an extraordinary predicament.

Not surprisingly, he walks at lightning speed, exceeding the best expectations.

Only

could stop him, in a house-brand surge, in the semifinals of Indian Wells.

The youngest champion of an ATP 500, upon winning in Rio de Janeiro, is in a position to continue breaking records of precocity.

He was coming off his second victory against Tsitsipas, in a match where he left dream points, samples of superlative abilities in all the game's chances.

It was no less in this Spanish Friday morning.

Another fearless warrior

With an even shorter route, Kecmanovic, 22 years old, 48th, also wants to ride this new wave of intrepid warriors.

Champion on the land of Kitzbuhel in 2020, a year after making the final on the grass of Antalya, counts among his victims in Miami

, winner against Nadal last Sunday in Indian Wells of his first Masters 1000. The Serbian is a returner of the school of the man who rules in his

, the Argentine

, a solid athlete, well armed, who was not deterred by the great sensation of the season.

Alcaraz was going to slipstream in the first set, without being able to take the initiative, but he reacted until reaching the tiebreaker.

Three open serves and a fourth to the "T".

After recovering lost serve in the second game, he completed a superb sequence to level for four.

There are many solutions that the Murcian has.

Kecmanovic was undeterred.

Not when he was down 5-4 and two returns in the tiebreaker.

He missed Alcaraz with a long backhand and gave him the opportunity to decide later with the serve.

The Spaniard did not fall, who soon commanded comfortably at the restart.

Forced to reply, he showed that he knows how to do it too.

When he had to run from the Serb's powerful punch, he did.

It cost him little to equalize a set, but the fierce resistance of the tennis player from Belgrade awaited him, tempered, firm, almost oblivious to emotions.

He raised as Alcaraz is used to and rededicated the victory, signing on camera with a heart, to his coach,

, and to his father, Eduardo, who recently passed away.

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