Carlos Alcaraz already seems ready to defend the title in Wimbledon. Returning from the triumph to Roland Garros on Sinner, the 22 -year -old Murciano makes his “HSBC Championships” his own, ATP 500 with total prize pool equal to 2,522,220 euros that has been held On the “mythical” meadows of the Queen’s Club of London. Series 1 head number 1 and second in the world ranking, Alcaraz got the better of the final On Jiri Lehecka For 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 after two hours and 8 minutes of play. For the Spaniard is already the 21st affirmation in the circuit, the fifth season after Rotterdam, Montecarlo, Rome and Paris. Furthermore, the match against Lehecka is the 18th consecutive success: Alcaraz does not lose from the Barcelona final against Rune last April 20.
After six attempts gone empty, the Kazakh Alexander Bublik Instead, the Russian Daniil Medvedev made it beat. It happened in the final of Halle’s ATP 500 tournamentin which Bublik imposed himself in his rival 6-3 7-6 (7-4) in an hour and 22 ‘of the game. For the Kazakh, which in the round of 16 had eliminated the n. 1 of the world Jannik Sinner, was also the second success in Halle after that of two years ago. Now he should go up to n. 30 of the ATP ranking. “After Wimbledon 2024 I was about to leave tennis, I don’t have fun anymore – Bublik said after the game -. Then I promised my coach that I would continue to train and I would have understood if they would take a couple of months out to try to come back. I spent difficult months until this summer, now all this is happening. ” Words these latter referring to the victory in the Turin Challenger, the quarterfinals at Roland Garros and now the second title in Halle. As for Medvedev, today on the German grass has been his first final played in the last 15 months and also the sixth consecutive defeat in a decisive challenge for a title.