Carlos Alcaraz had a week of rebirth, of recovering the smile. He had begun recognizing that the pressure for not being the best in the ATP ranking on the tour on its favorite surface (brick dust) negatively influenced its performance. That is why he will hardly forget The title that this Sunday won in the 1,000 masters in Montecarlothe historic prelude to Roland Garrosin which he straightened a bad start, stopped the thrust and enthusiasm of the Italian Lorenzo Musettiwhich ended and physically battered, and traced the encounter with partials of 3-6, 6-1 and 6-0.
“The family passes my head, my people. It has been a very complicated month for me. After Miami it was a difficult month. I had to focus after a week of training. I am very happy with how things have gone. Happy and wanting to continue.”Recognized Alcaraz, still about the Court, about how he lived is last time.
The Murcia got the eighteenth title of his career, the second of 2025 after Róterdam and the sixth of the Masters 1000 category, although he was the first with the Mediterranean Sea as a backdrop. With 21 years and 11 monthsan unusual age for these achievements, Alcaraz completed the fifth most early victory of the century in Montecarlo, only behind the first four titles achieved by the maximum historical champion Rafael Nadalbetween 2005 and 2008.
“I have to be focused on what I have to be, in the game”Alcaraz insisted, while remembered the pressure to which he was subjected after losing in Miami in the first round and after winning his third final followed by brick dust after that of Roland Garros, with Victoria, and that of the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, lost against Novak Djokovic.
The Spanish will return Monday to World Cup number for the first time since November -Superating the German Alexander Zverev– And it leaves Montecarlo as number 1 of the ATP Live Ranking with 2,410 points added in the season.
In the Principality, he needed an improvement in his game to redirect a game, as happened in his first commitment to the Argentine Francisco Cerúando, and in the quarterfinals, against the Frenchman Arthur Fils, where he had to amend an irregular start.
This Sunday, it took an hour and 46 minutes to close a clash that in the final stretch was a procedure for the low resistance that his rival ended up, physically reduced, assisted on the court by the physiotherapist and without a solution to a pain in the right of the right thigh. Conditioned by the effort of the whole week in which he dealt with hard matches, five of them resolved in three sets. The last one, before the Australian Alex de Miñaur in the semifinals, with a few hours of rest. Excessive tension for Italian.
Alcaraz went to his. After a bad start that cost him the set. The Spanish won the first game, but Musetti, at a good level, won the next four (4-1) and closed the sleeve. He put Musetti, who later ran into the solvent reaction of Alcaraz. The Spanish improved by winning 6-1 the second. The first symptoms of weakness broke into the body of the transalpine, resigned to the defeat in the most important final of his career.
He had never played that of a 1000 masters, Musetti, which boasts the titles of 2022, in Napoli and Hamburg, where he won, only once, Alcaraz.
“I’m very sorry, I hope it’s not much,” the champion told his rival, on the network, at the end of the game. Musetti lifted the white flag after 3-0 of the third set, in the exchange, after being assisted.
Spanish was clearly imposed in the seventh final of Masters 1000 that he disputed and the first from Indian Wells 13 months ago. It is the third 1000 masters in brick dust after the two successes in Madrid and the ninth on that surface in its general record.
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