Queens Club Championships: Playing in a grass-court quarter-final for the first time on Friday, Carlos Alcaraz used a fast start and a strong finish to defeat Grigor Dimitrov at the Cinch Championships.
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The Spaniard’s 6-4, 6-4 victory extends his edge to 3-0 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head and moves him to 5-4 lifetime on grass courts. With his first Top 30 win on the surface, he advances to the semi-finals for the eighth time in his nine events this season — his lone early exit coming in the Rome third round.
“The work that I put in, the matches that I played [at] a great level helped me a lot coming into this really tough match,” Alcaraz said of his development on the grass. “Grigor is a top player in every surface, but I would say even more here on grass, he feels the ball really well.
“I just played really well from the beginning until the last ball.” With Alcaraz and Korda joining Holger Rune and Alex de Minaur in the semi-finals, all four of the remaining players are under 25 years of age.
“It’s great to play against the young players like me,” the 20-year-old Alcaraz said when told of that statistic. “We are setting the generation and obviously we are going to play a lot of matches at such great events, great tournaments. It’ going to be really fun to play.
“Sebi, he’s a friend,” he continued, looking ahead to Saturday’s matchup. “He’s coming with great tennis. Of course I would say it’s going to be a really good match. I hope the crowd enjoys that match because it’s something special.”
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