Alcaraz shines against Otte and enters like a shot in the second round

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In accelerated progression, each match stronger, more convincing and safer,

is already in the round of 16 at Wimbledon.

He is, at 19 years and 66 days, the youngest player to appear in this round of the tournament since

, who reached the quarterfinals in 2011. This Friday, the fifth seed destroyed German

6-3, 6-1 and 6-2, in one hour and 38 minutes, in what was by far their best match so far in the competition.

He will

this Sunday , who beat

in three sets.

With only two appearances in the final table of the All England Club, in his fifth official match on grass, Alcaraz begins to handle all the springs on the surface with great skill.

Otte suffered, reduced to very little before the kid's display.

The Spanish came out like a cyclone.

He added the first eight points and put his rival against the wall from the start.

Assimilated the difficulties of the debut against

and the much more reliable work against

, we were facing an even more determined player, who served well and sent with his right hand, quick with his legs to attack most of the balls with his best shot.

Otte, a newcomer to the

after making the semifinals in Stutgart and Halle, lacked a plan B when he failed to take the initiative from a dry, synthetically executed first serve, which did not work as well as he needed to have options.

The first set was a breeze: in half an hour, the Spaniard not only gained an advantage but had twice broken his opponent's serve, by far his best argument.

inertia of genius

Lean, aged for his 29 years, the German could not hide his gestures of concern.

He was forced to exercise maximum precision with all his resources.

At the slightest slip he ran into a fast and accurate Alcaraz, with that inertia of genius that made it easy for him to choose the right solution at every moment, whether it was a

, a lob, regardless of his opponent's 1.93, a left or a bottom line winner.

Just entered the second set, Otte returned to deliver his serve.

He had no respite in his service games either.

When he was supposed to play with seconds, he bled to death.

Much less the trend changed as the game progressed, leading to the conclusive score.

Champion this year in Miami, Madrid, Rio and Barcelona and quarter-finalist in Roland Garros, Alcaraz is one step away from being among the top eight in the London tournament, as he did recently in Roland Garros and also last year in the Open of USA.

Among the figures he presented in his pristine statistics, he is particularly impressive with the number of unforced errors: just eight, against 37 winners.

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