Barcelona Open: Holgar Run Stun Carlos Alakraj for the first title since April 2023. Tennis news

Barcelona: Holgar Roon Defeated world number two Carlos Alakraj 7-6 (8/6), 6-2 to win on Sunday Barcelona Open For the first time.
Run was almost innocent because he became the second player to defeat Alkaraz Clay in his last 23 matches, although Spaniard had some physical difficulties in the second set.
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Four -time Grand Slam winner Alakraj was ready for his French Open Defense, hunting for his third title in Barcelona, ​​but anywhere since April 2023, Run made his first claim.
“This is a crazy feeling, it’s so long for me because I have won a title, perhaps a little more than a year, I am very happy,” Run told TVai.
“To defeat Carlos in the final, a good friend and a wonderful player, the world means, I am proud to be in this moment.
“I think I used to create a lot, I played very well again.”
Alakraj, who won the Monte Carlo Masters last week, felt that he had given what he could do.
Alkaraj said, “This is a two-week non-stop work, maximum is going every day, I think we all have done a great job to get this moment.”
“It was not possible today, I have given everything that I had.
“I don’t know what I could give more, but I want to thank my team, family and friends.”
Alkaraj attracted the first blood with a break in the fifth game, but Run immediately returned to 3-3 levels.
Dane, who finished 13th in the world, put his opponent under heavy pressure in the 10th game, Alakraj forced to save two set points in the way of the tie-break.
Run had two more scattered in the tie-break before claiming the first set when Alakraj went for a long time.
This was the first set to drop the spainiard throughout the week and he was roaring in another.
Run saved two brake points for a tough grip in the second game and Alkaraz won the third win before taking a medical time-out.
The 21 -year -old was taken out of court, but ran into trouble with a ruthless rupture.
Dane saved two brake points on his way to consolidate for a 4–2 lead, as Alakraj treated his upper right leg.
Run broke again and served it, when Alakraj slapped a shot in the net.
Alakraj’s previous necklace on Clay came to the Paris Olympics in the last summer at the hands of Serbian Great Novak Djokovic.
“I (asked) to myself ‘What did Novak do when he beat him up?” I played it in my mind, in the Olympic final, and tried to play the style that found a lot of balls. ,
“I am very happy with how I was making it when it was, and I was really brave.”