By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Photo Credit: Jeff Dean/Wick Photography/Cincinnati Open Facebook
The balls came to Carlos Alcaraz From every imaginable direction – he treated the attack with a smile and a right -handed stroke.
The new fans put excessive souvenir balls towards Alcaraz after his 6-4, 6-4 victory over Hamad Medjedovic On a shaky afternoon in Cincinnati Open.
It was a signature victory for Alcaraz, who overthrew his 12th acen to close his 50th season of the season in style. Alcaraz is the first man to score 50 match wins in four right seasons since Grand Slam King Novak Djokovic did it back in 2016.
Is the 13th successive of the ATP Masters 1000 Wins and sends it in a round of 16 Clash vs Italian Luca Nardi.
Carlito’s way
With his 6-4 6-4 victory over Medjedovic, @Carlosalcaraz It is the first ATP player to win 50 games in four consecutive seasons since Djokovic in 2016!#Cincytennis pic.twitter.com/l4lryvi5lw
– Tenis TV (@tennistv) 12 August 2025
Lucky loser Nardi led Miami Open Champion Jakub fascinates 6-2, 2-1 when the 16th czecheke withdrew after 42 minutes of play. Alcaraz defeated 22-year-old Nardi 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in their only preliminary meeting in the 16th round ago this season.
Today’s match was a meeting between the 22-year-old former former champions of Gen ATP Finals with a shared lead for strong strikes and deviant shots.
Pushed into distance in his triumph 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 Damir dzumhur In its open opening of Cincinnati, Alcaraz faced a much different challenge in Medjedovic, which can exterminate the points with a swing nearly any stroke.
Alcaraz spent most of the match departing from heavy strikes from the hit Serbian corner and sprinting in the corner with occasion to repel deep discs.
The first set was shaken in a 13-minute nine-goat steam game. Medjedovic saved three resting points, but enjoyed his lead for the fall and found the net instead of confronting a fourth rest. Serbia spitted his third double game of game while Alcaraz broke for 4-3 to end a punitive game.
This game seemed to strengthen Alcaraz and drains Medjedovic. Breeze Alcaraz through a holding at 15 to support rest for 5-3.
The reigning champion Roland Garros served on the set of 15. Medjedovic more than doubled the production of Alcaraz’s uninformed error – 21 to 10 – and stopped taking a medical term after opening.
In the middle of the second group, Alcaraz was feeling the heat-from the conditions similar to the boiler and the separation drives from the Medjedovic missile. A massive return of the return down the line gave the Serbian back point, then Alcaraz hit his first double guilt to turn the 3-way rest.
“Match new! Challenge yourself!” The Medjedovic coach screamed in encouragement. But Serbs 6’2 “was very busy inhaling in the deep mouth as it bent over the waist leaning on the back wall in visible exhaustion to really absorb that encouraging message.
In the next match, Alcaraz returned from 40-15 down while a tired medjedovic fired two attempts to drop in a row in the net and marked his second direct rest for 4-3.
This time, the Spaniard of the second seed collided with a strong retention that extends to 5-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqj33o2xsk
Alcaraz sealed his 50th victory of the year, hitting his 12th acen.
The 22-year-old Spanish improved to 50-6 a season as he attends his sixth title of the year.
The winner of the Alcaraz-Nardi match will face or Andrey Rublev OR Francisco Cameana in the quarterfinals.
Rublev with ninth seed destroyed 18 aces and rescued five of the six points of the 2024 Canadian Canadian Canadian champion open Alexei Popyrin 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5 in a battle of three and a half sticks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eawyfskesb4
Earlier in the stadium court, Cameana looked at, took a long medical time, returned to court to fight some match points defying a reprint Reilly Opelka 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5.
