TOKYO (GIAPPONE) (ITALPRESS) – On the day Jannik Sinner announced that he will be back in the field not before 2027, Carlos Alcaraz returns to win a tournament and does so at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships, the Atp 500 played on cement in Tokyo. In the final the Spanish, number 3 in the world and number 1 in the tournament, won in two sets the Czech Jiri Lehecka, number 19 in the world, with the score of 7-6 (4), 6-4.
It is the 27th career title for Spanish, which, from the head of series number 1, completed a historic double: in Japan, only Stefan Edberg (1989-91) and Pete Sampras (1993-94) had succeeded. “It’s special to have a trophy in the arms of the second tournament after the injury,” said Alcaraz after the victory.
“This week I didn’t play well, but I found the right solutions in important moments and that’s what matters. I would also say that today I played the game more consistently than the first matches – his statements reported by Supertennis -. Many thoughts pass through your head when you’re injured. You never know if you can get back what you were, if you hit the ball like you did before. I tried to get rid of those thoughts, I knew I’d come back to the field only when I felt 100% again.”.
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