The US run in Rolland Garos is over, as Spanish star Carlos Alkaraz rejected Tommy Paul in straight sets after defeating French Tiafo by Italian Lorenzo Musti in the French Open Quarterfinal on Tuesday in Paris.
It qualifies Mussetti’s second Grand Slam semi -final berth and the third straight year semi of defending champion Alkaraz.
Number 2 seeds, Alkaraj dominated the 12th seeded Paul in 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 victory.
“I played many times against Tommy, and each match was really difficult,” Alakraj said after the match. “He defeated me twice, helping me focus on my tennis at the beginning of the match … trying not to go down or let him go in the match.”
Alakraj won 38 out of 43 first-service points (88.4 percent) and lost only seven service points in total. He won the tone for the match by winning all nine of his first ninth issue in the initial set.
He finished the match with 40 winners against 22 unexpected errors. Paul had 13 winners and twice several unexpected errors.
Paul, who defeated the 24th and 25th seeded players in the last two rounds, was the first American man to reach the quarter -finals in Rolland Garos since Andre Agassi in 2003. After Paul’s 16 wins, Tiafo reiterated his achievement.
On Tuesday, number 15 Seed Tiapho ran into a red-hot Musetti, eighth seed. Mussetti became strong from 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
With a set episce with the match, neither the player served for the first 11 matches, until Mussetty won the first two points of 12th, requiring the edge.
“The third set was actually a battle and in April, Alakraj’s runner-up Musetti in the Monte-Karlo Masters said,” It was not easy to make a break. ” “” Even though I was a little tired and it was really difficult for me to live there, I got additional energy to win this set, and of course the last set was probably the best set of this match. “
Mussetti won 61 out of his 75 first-service points (81.3 percent) for the match. He had 45 winners and 32 unexpected errors, while Tiafo managed 33 winners but made 51 unexpected errors.
Mousetti and Alakraj have been slated for Monte-Karlo Remach in the semi-finals. The other two quarterfinals will be beaten against Serbia’s No. 6 Sea Novak Djokovic against Serbia’s No. 6 Sea Alexander Zverev against Alexander Babical of Kazakhstan and against Germany’s No. 3 Seed Alexander Zverev.
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