Alcaraz leaves Zverev in nothing and wins his second Masters 1000 in Madrid

According to what was seen in the final, the most difficult work, which was a lot, had already been done.

After blasting through Nadal and Djokovic, Alexander Zverev was little for Carlos Alcaraz, who won his 10th match in a row and clinched his fifth career title and second Masters 1000 title, also winning Miami.

Alcaraz won 6-3 and 6-1, in one hour and two minutes, and is, at 19 years and three days, the youngest champion of the Mutua Madrid Open, surpassing Nadal in precociousness, who won the first of his five titles in the capital, in 2005, with 19 years and five months.

A break in the sixth game of the first set and another three in the second gave the victory to the Spaniard, who is also the sixth man in the professional era to win the first five finals he has played.

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It presented more direct serves, higher percentage of success with the first serve, more points won with it, as well as with the second serve, better percentage in

saved... The numbers supported the one from Hamburg, as well as the precedents in their matches, with two victories for him.

Nuanced data, of course, because we must not forget that the Spaniard had just beaten Nadal and Djokovic consecutively and that when he faced Zverev, last year, in Acapulco and Vienna, in both cases on a fast surface, he was still out of the

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power and dropshots

The truth is that the giant, close to two meters, was in many moments no more than a disjointed doll, a toy in the hands of Alcaraz, who destroyed it with his usual weapons and his changes of rhythm, making him dance around the dance floor to the tune he he played, either through power or through mimosas, house brand drops.

Only serve saved Zverev from an even more disgraceful loss.

Without detracting from Alcaraz, perhaps the tournament, on his twentieth anniversary, deserved another opponent for him.

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With 19 titles, including two ATP Finals and Olympic gold in Tokyo, Zverev has long been one of the most accredited members of the so-called

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At 25 years old, he has not yet managed to make the leap that his capabilities suggest.

He gives the impression that he still weighs the lost final at the 2020 US Open, when he dominated Dominic Thiem by two sets to love.

Advised by his father from the beginning of his career, he is now trying Sergi Bruguera on the bench, after short-lived experiences alongside Juan Carlos Ferrero and David Ferrer.

In the final he failed to create a single break point.

He was not an enemy at any time.

He left on a double fault, on fourth match point.

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