Alcaraz met his semi-final rival in Paris at dawn

It was very late, their quarterfinal match had started an hour late due to the long daytime session and the tribute to the former French player. Sebastien Grosjean. In addition, the fight for the semi-finals was prolonged by having to overcome two match points against the American. Taylor Fritz. Therefore, Carlos Alcaraz and his team accelerated the routines.

He also went to the media more quickly than usual. Carlos Alcaraz was already thinking about his duel today, Saturday, not before 5 in the afternoon, about the recovery process after enormous physical and mental effort. Mitigated in part because he had fun with his comeback, connecting with the public.

He will have an advantage in that aspect over his rival, whose identity he learned at dawn, around one o’clock. He left late for his hotel, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who closed the marathon day beating the Portuguese Nuno Borges by 7-6 (5) and 6-4. In favor of the Scandinavian who did not suffer due to his classification against a ‘lucky loser’, in the box as a substitute for the Andalusian Alexander Davidovich.

In his day Alcaraz fought with Casper Ruud for the US Open 2022 and world no.

The session will begin, no earlier than 2:30 p.m., with the first semifinal, between the American Ben Shelton and the french Luca Van Assche.

The tournament will have a new champion. Carlos Alcaraz is fighting to be the second Spaniard to enter the history of the tournament, which he won in 2012 David Ferrerwho later lost the 2023 final. Rafa Nadal was a finalist in 2007, the same condition of Sergio Casal in 1986 and Andres Gimeno in 1972.