Top seed Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the quarter-finals of the Queen’s Club Championships after he beat Jiri Lehecka 6-2 6-3 however third seed Taylor Fritz was knocked out by Adrian Mannarino.
Alcaraz is taking part in on grass for the primary time this week since his fourth-round exit at Wimbledon final yr and he’s slowly attending to grips with the unfamiliar, sooner floor.
“I’m happy with the level I played today… I had a really solid match. I’m feeling really comfortable here on grass, getting experience and hours on grass,” world quantity two Alcaraz mentioned.
“Your expectations change when you’re playing your first quarter-final (on grass), I’m enjoying every single second and I go into the next round with confidence.”
Under sunny skies, Alcaraz raced away right into a 3-0 lead within the opening set regardless of taking a tumble and shedding his racket when his Czech opponent fired a winner and ultimately obtained on the board.
But Alcaraz was again on his ft and dusted himself off earlier than rapidly pulling away, sealing the primary set with an audacious cross-court backhand winner that whizzed previous Lehecka because the Czech approached the web and landed proper on the road.
Alcaraz carried that momentum into the second set as Lehecka struggled to learn his low groundstrokes whereas the Spaniard additionally saved three break factors to go 4-1 up.
By then the writing was on the wall and though Lehecka valiantly managed to carry serve, Alcaraz sealed the win on his third match level when the Czech’s return went lengthy.
Fritz’s preparations for Wimbledon took a success when the American went down in straight units to Mannarino, the Frenchman profitable 6-4 7-6(7) to maneuver into the quarter-finals.
It was a second victory over a top-10 participant for Mannarino in as many weeks having crushed Daniil Medvedev in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Mannarino will face Australia’s Alex de Minaur who swept Diego Schwartzman apart with an emphatic 6-2 6-2 victory, breaking the Argentine six instances and wrapping up the competition in simply 65 minutes.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
