It was billed as the battle of the 20-year-olds but Carlos Alcaraz pulled rank on his childhood buddy Holger Rune as he doused the Dane's fireworks to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time with a 7-6(3) 6-4 6-4 victory on Wednesday.
The two tyros, who were born six days apart, were contesting a men's Wimbledon quarter-final that for the first time in the professional era featured two players aged under 21.
"I am playing at a great level, I didn’t expect to play such a great level on this surface. For me, it is crazy," added the Spaniard who has been more at home on clay and hard courts. But the top seed, already in the Grand Slam winner's club after triumphing at the U.S. Open last year, refused to get flustered and kept winning the points that mattered.
But seconds later he was left red-faced and staring into the turf in disbelief when he spectacularly smashed the ball into the net despite having an open court at his disposal. After Alcaraz failed to convert his first three match points, including a double fault on one of them, he sealed victory when Rune slapped a service return long.
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