2023-08-11 06:26:10
Alcaras raised his series of consecutive victories to 14 matches, as he needed 5 decisive points to decide the match against the 15th seed, after he squandered his 5-2 lead in the decisive third set, pushing Hurkacz to a tiebreaker for the second time in a row.
Alcaras said after winning the 19th match in the Masters tournaments, a thousand points out of the 21 he played this year, “I faced difficulties when I was serving to win the match. I do not know how I won.”
He continued, “I was fighting, I was on fire, this match was very difficult.”
“In difficult moments, I asked myself to keep fighting and to play hard,” he added.
Alcaras will play American Tommy Paul, seeded 12, who booked his place in the quarter-finals by defeating compatriot Marcos Giron 6-3, 6-2.
-Medvedev without difficulty-
Unlike Alcaras, Russian Daniel Medvedev, seeded second in the tournament, did not make much effort to beat Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-4 in 93 minutes.
Medvedev broke the 19th-ranked Italian three times, achieving his 31st win on hard courts, compared to only 3 defeats.
Medvedev, who was crowned in Toronto in 2021, seeks his sixth title this year and the fifth on hard courts.
The Russian set up a quarter-final date with Australian Alex de Minor, who narrowly defeated American Taylor Fritz 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 6-1.
Medvedev said the wind caused him some problems against Musetti.
“You can’t hit the ball with all your might in these conditions and you don’t know what to expect. It wasn’t easy for either of us, but I did enough to win…”.
-Roud falls to an unranked Spaniard-
The Norwegian Casper Rudd, ranked third in the world, lost to the unranked Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-7 (4-7) in a marathon match in the final price.
The Spaniard reached the fourth quarter-finals in his career in the 1,000-point Masters tournament, achieving his fifth victory in his career over a player among the top 10 players in the world rankings.
Davidovich Fokina, ranked 37 in the world, will play in the quarter-finals with American Mackenzie McDonald, who defeated Canadian Milos Raonic 6-3, 6-3.
Ruud served to settle the match in his favor, 5-4 in the third set, but lost his serve in the fatal moments.
Davidovich Fokina decided the set in the match in the tie-break, and he needed 3 hours to defeat his opponent.
“I kept very focused on every point when he sent (Rud) for it,” said Davidovich Fokina.
“I told myself to be present, not to give up,” he continued.
He added, “It is very difficult to end such an even match with so many long exchanges. When I broke his serve 5-4, it was a show of strength.”
For his part, Ruud saved two points in the tie-break before succumbing to his opponent, who finished the match with 49 winners and 56 direct errors.
The match was stopped for an hour and three-quarters of an hour in the second set due to rain.
And the adventure of Scottish veteran Andy Murray ended in Toronto after announcing his withdrawal due to an injury before the start of his match against Italian Yannick Sinner.
“I can’t play tonight,” the 36-year-old said, addressing the crowd on the field. “I feel like I let the fans down. I’ve rarely faced this situation in my career.”
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