Carlos Alcaraz navigated the second hurdle of his French Open title defence impressively as he downed Fabian Marozsan in four sets.<\/p>\n
The No 2 seed downed the dangerous Marozsan 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Court\u00a0Philippe-Chatrier in the second round of the Paris major.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a>\u00a0broke Marozsan eight times and was dominant in sets one, three and four, while the world No 56 showed the threat he poses in the second set.<\/p>\n The Spaniard was upset by Marozsan in his first encounter with the Hungarian at the 2023 Italian Open.<\/p>\n In his on-court interview with tennis great Mats Wilander, Alcaraz was\u00a0asked if he is having fun every time he plays.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of the time (laughs). Sometimes, it\u2019s difficult to have fun on the court, you know, I had to suffer. It depends on the opponent as well,\u201d the\u00a022-year-old said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut most of the time, I\u2019m trying to not think about anything else but enjoying playing, enjoying being on these kind of courts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Philippe-Chatrier is a really beautiful court, so I have to enjoy once I step on the court. Just trying to show good tennis, trying to make the people happy to watch my matches as well. That\u2019s the way I enjoy playing tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n John McEnroe offers intriguing take as he answers Carlos Alcaraz question<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Casper Ruud set for major rankings drop after stunning French Open exit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam champion added: \u201cIt was a great, great match. I started pretty well, the first set I had a really high confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the second set, he started to play much better, really aggressively. He didn\u2019t miss at all, so it was a little bit difficult to deal with his game in the second set.<\/p>\n \u201cBut really happy to stay strong, just refreshed in the third set, started to play better and better and have been a really good last two sets.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz\u2019s win against Marozsan was his 20th victory at the French Open in just his 23rd match at the tournament.<\/p>\n Since the turn of the century, only Rafael Nadal<\/a> has reached 20 wins at Roland Garros in fewer matches, with the Mallorcan titan having won all of his first 20 matches. Nadal, a 14-time champion at the French Open, was undefeated in his first 31 matches at the clay-court Slam.<\/p>\n Alcaraz also has the third-highest ATP win percentage on clay among players who have contested at least 25 matches on the surface, with an outstanding 98-19 (83.8%) record.<\/p>\n Nadal (90.5%) and Bjorn Borg (86.1%) are the only men with a better win rate on clay.<\/p>\n Alcaraz will face either Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard or Damir Dzumhur in the third round.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Jannik Sinner has one \u2018fatal\u2019 weakness that a brutal statistic confirms<\/a> The post Carlos Alcaraz trails only Rafael Nadal & Bjorn Borg in incredible clay stat after French Open win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz navigated the second hurdle of his French Open title defence impressively as he downed Fabian Marozsan in four sets. The No 2 seed downed the dangerous Marozsan 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Court\u00a0Philippe-Chatrier in the second round of the Paris major. Alcaraz\u00a0broke Marozsan eight times and was dominant in sets one, three and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n
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