Alcaraz beats Munar with solvency and is already in the Godó quarterfinals

's twentieth victory of the course

came in a comfortable match against his compatriot

.

The Murcian fulfilled his first responsibilities of an intense Friday at the Conde de Godó, winning 6-3 and 6-3, in one hour and 10 minutes, in the round of 16 and will face the winner of the duel between

and

.

The rain that forced the almost total cancellation of the day on Thursday forced to play this Friday both the round of 16 and the quarterfinals.

Alcaraz began with his match against Munar, a player he had beaten earlier in the year on his way to the title in Rio de Janeiro after losing last year in the semifinals of the Marbella tournament.

Munar, who was a junior finalist at Roland Garros in 2014 and reached number three in the category, has not finished responding to expectations among the elders.

At 24 years old, he is a good competitor, but he is far from men like the one he faced on the

track at RCT Barcelona.

Radical change

This Alcaraz has little to do with the one he saw last spring in Marbella.

Nor with the player who lost a year ago to

in the first round of the Conde de Godó, being still the 119th in the world.

Munar faced a rival who has soon forgotten the defeat against

in his debut in Monte Carlo and the doubts of his first match in Barcelona against the Korean

and plays with the confidence of his extraordinary season, with the titles in Rio and in the Miami Masters 1000.

Alcaraz won the first set thanks to a single break and started the second by breaking love.

It soon became apparent that his pace was difficult for his opponent to bear.

"You have to go on court thinking that it's the only game because if you lose you don't play another, but I knew that the less time I spent the better. When he played with weight on the right side he made more mistakes and tried to dominate like that", he said on Teledeporte at the conclusion.

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