{"id":49734,"date":"2022-05-25T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=49734"},"modified":"2022-05-25T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:31:34","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-saves-match-point-albert-ramos-vinolas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/05\/25\/carlos-alcaraz-saves-match-point-albert-ramos-vinolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Saves Match Point to Edge Albert Ramos-Vinolas in Five-Set Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz survived a match point and a serious scare to edge compatriot Albert Ramos-Vinolas in five sets at the 2022 French Open<\/a>. The 19-year-old, who is one of the favourites to win the men’s singles title, was expected to handle this encounter without too much trouble. However, the all-Spanish second round battle proved to be one of the most exciting matches of the tournament so far.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1 6-7(7) 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4<\/h3>\n

Alcaraz looked on course for a convincing victory after storming through the opening set in just 26 minutes. The World No. 6<\/a> broke his opponent to go up 3-1 and 5-1, before serving the set out. He lost just three points in four service games in the opener.<\/p>\n

The teenage star did not face a break point in the second set, but was unable to convert four chances to break Ramos-Vinolas’–three at 2-2 and one at 3-3. The World No. 44 came from 2-4 behind in the tiebreak to level the match after converting his third set point.<\/p>\n

In the third set, Ramos-Vinolas’s momentum continued as he broke Alcaraz for the first time to go up 2-1. The younger Spaniard broke back to level at 3-3, but was broken again by his 34-year-old opponent at 5-5. Ramos-Vinolas then served the set out to love to move closer to scoring a huge upset.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz responded by breaking for a 2-0 lead in the fourth set, before losing his serve in the following game. In the ninth game, Ramos-Vinolas struck again to take a 5-4 and give himself a chance to serve for the match. The 19-year-old, though, broke back after saving a match point when Ramos-Vinolas netted a forehand.<\/p>\n

Ramos-Vinolas saved three set points to win a marathon 19-point game and force a tiebreak. The World No. 6 held firm as he secured three mini-breaks to take the epic, one-hour-and-16-minute set to force a decider.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old reacted impressively by surging to a 3-0 lead in the fifth set, but Alcaraz hit back again. The 19-year-old broke back for 3-2, before breaking again to earn a 4-3 advantage. The drama continued as Ramos-Vinolas earned the 13th service break of the match to level at 4-4.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz then earned the fifth break of the fifth set for 5-4 after showcasing remarkable speed and retrieval skills on his third break point, before serving out to love. The World No. 6 ultimately triumphed in four hours and 34 minutes in a memorable French Open second round contest. Alcaraz will face Sebastian Korda or Richard Gasquet<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n

Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz survived a match point and a serious scare to edge compatriot Albert Ramos-Vinolas in five sets at the 2022 French Open. The 19-year-old, who is one of the favourites to win the men’s singles title, was expected to handle this encounter without too much trouble. However, the all-Spanish second round battle proved to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3530,"featured_media":49569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[17670,450,5729],"class_list":["post-49734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-french-open","tag-2022-french-open","tag-albert-ramos-vinolas","tag-carlos-alcaraz"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}