Rafael Nadal, thirteen-time Roland-Garros title winner, will find world number one Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals on Tuesday after his Sunday victory over Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, 3-6, 6-3, 6- 2, 3 -6, 6-3 after four and a half hours of exchanges in a central incandescent field. Carlos Alcaraz walked against Karen Khachanov in just over …
The long-awaited quarterfinal gave an insanely intense showdown that lasted 4:12. Wonderful. Suffocating. overwhelming. By force or finesse, lining up crawling races, resisting the threat of a desperate return by Novak Djokovic, adapting to the conditions that over the minutes made his rise less sharp, while the thermometer moved away by escaped precious ranks, Rafael …
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The Spaniard qualified for his fourteenth Porte d’Auteuil final on Friday after a match interrupted by the injury of Alexander Zverev, who was forced to surrender before the second set tie-break. At Roland Garros An unfinished war and a heartbreaking epilogue. In the score 6-6 in the second set, while Nadal and Zverev fought for …
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