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Carlos Alcaraz reached the past 16 astatine Wimbledon successful 2022, his champion tally astatine the Championships| Venue: All England Club Dates: 3-16 July |
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Spain's satellite fig 1 Carlos Alcaraz gained a comfy first-round triumph against Jeremy Chardy, who played the last singles lucifer of his career.
Alcaraz, the reigning US Open champion, needed little than 2 hours to unafraid a 6-0 6-2 7-5 triumph connected Court One.
The 20-year-old restricted his 36-year-old hostile to lone 7 games.
Frenchman Chardy reached the past 16 successful 2014 and has already said Wimbledon would beryllium the past clip helium plays successful a singles tourney successful his career.
"I played truly good and astatine the opening of the lucifer successful the archetypal acceptable helium was successful a small spot of trouble," said Alcaraz.
"I'm truly blessed to play astatine a large level and to get through. It's truly beauteous to play present and I'm truly blessed to person a batch of radical supporting me."
Jeremy Chardy archetypal played astatine Wimbledon successful 2008, erstwhile Carlos Alcaraz was conscionable 5 years oldChardy was playing astatine Wimbledon for the 14th twelvemonth and has been arsenic precocious arsenic 25th successful the satellite rankings.
"He's a antithetic procreation due to the fact that I'm adjacent to treble his age," Chardy told the ATP Tour website earlier the match.
"For maine it is an affectional week due to the fact that it volition beryllium my past tourney successful singles truthful it is simply a acquisition to person the accidental to play against him."
Alcaraz is aiming to go the 3rd youngest subordinate to triumph the men's Wimbledon singles' rubric successful the Open Era, down 17-year-old Boris Becker successful 1985 and 20-year-old Bjorn Borg successful 1976.
His show successful the opening 2 sets was near-flawless with Chardy struggling to incorporate his opponent's service and producing a fig of treble faults astatine cardinal moments.
Alcaraz needed lone 22 minutes to instrumentality the archetypal acceptable and broke Chardy's service successful the opening crippled of the 2nd arsenic the triumph looked to beryllium a formality.
Chardy did yet get a crippled connected the committee by winning the 4th crippled of acceptable two, receiving a superb reception from the Court One assemblage for doing so.
At 2 sets down, Chardy restored immoderate pridefulness successful the 3rd acceptable and managed to interruption Alcaraz's service successful the sixth game, lone for the Spaniard to instantly get the lucifer backmost connected service a fewer minutes later.
Alcaraz past broke successful the 11th crippled and served retired the triumph to acceptable up a second-round gathering with different French subordinate - either Alexandre Muller, 84th successful the world, oregon Arthur Rinderknech, 2 places higher astatine 82nd.
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