Australian Open second seed Carlos Alcaraz was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Alexander Zverev after a match in which the German dominated the contest from end to end.

In the quarters of the Australian Open, Carlos Alcaraz was dominated by Oleksandr Zverev

The match with Oleksandr Zverev was the last match for Alcaraz at this year’s Australian Open.

The German won in four sets with a score of 6-1, 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-4 and did not give any chance to the former ATP leader in the match, which was held at Rod Laver Arena.

At the press conference, Carlito tried to find an explanation for his poor performance in the quarters of the Australian Open, but the Spaniard was quite confused.

“Sasha played a great match. Everything started as it should have been and as I thought, aggressively at work. I don’t know what happened. I wish I could give you an answer, but I didn’t have a good feeling from the start. I made mistakes that I haven’t made at the beginning of other matches.

The serve was bad… It’s hard to come back against players of this level. I’ll try to watch the replay and talk to Samu and Huanky who watched the game and see what happened, but I can’t tell you more at this point.

I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t know what happened. What I said still stands, I need to see what happened and talk to my team because right now I don’t know what conclusions to draw.

They will definitely tell me things as they are and we will improve from here on out. I’m sure I’ll be better in the future, because if I want to win more Grand Slams, I have to improve this kind of thing. If that happens to me, it’s not impossible to come back, but against these types of players it’s very difficult to come back when you lose sets so easily.

I tried to stay strong after losing those two sets. Do not credit Sasha, he had a complete game. If he had given me something to do, I would have gone into the match earlier, but he didn’t give me anything. One of the things I remember is that in these situations I have to try to be strong and feel good even if I lose and my game is not working. At the end of the third set, I miraculously found my level and improved little by little, but I don’t take credit because I was the best today.

Nobody is perfect. Everyone always has something to improve. I will not apologize for my age, but I am 20 years old. It’s something I need to improve and personally I think it’s normal that it happens to me. The good thing is that I know this happens to me and we need to work on it so that it happens less often or not at all.

This used to happen to me more often than now. I don’t care. I know this is something I will change and come back to. I know that if it happens to me again, I will go back and make a difference. You will see a change.” – said Carlos Alcaraz.

Find out after the match between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev

• After Wednesday’s win, the head-to-head score is now 5-3 for Alexander.

• In the previous seven head-to-head matches, Oleksandr and Carlos have met each other twice in Grand Slam tournaments. One win each: Zverev at Roland Garros 2022 and Alcaraz at US Open 2023.

• Despite being eliminated, this is Alcaraz’s best performance in Melbourne, a quarter-final appearance. It will be recalled that the Iberian won two major titles: US Open 2022 and Wimbledon 2023.

• On the other hand, Zverev reached the semifinals again at the Australian Open in 2020 (he was defeated by Thiem). The German also has a major tournament final: the 2020 US Open, where he also lost to Dominic Thiem.

Australian Open 2024 Men’s Semi-Finals

The men’s semi-finals of the 2024 Australian Open will take place on Friday and the matches will be available to watch live on Eurosport channels.

Novak Djokovic (1) vs Yannick Sinner (4) / 4-2 straight matches

Daniil Medvedev (3) vs. Oleksandr Zverev (6) / 11-7 consecutive matches.

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