Rune won the championship to pay tribute to Djokovic, Arca lost the world second due to an unexpected injury, and Madrid was doubtful

Can't beat it! I really can't beat it! In last night's Barcelona final, Rune defeated Alcaraz with a phenomenal performance to win the championship! Although Alcaraz's injury in the second set seems to have made Rune's gold content lose some of its value this time, considering the performance in the first set, even if Alcaraz is not injured, it may be difficult to stop such Rune!

As once the "Big Three" of tennis, Rune's form has been sluggish in the past two years. It is also strange to say that Rune's own playing style is very comprehensive, and the front and back shooting techniques are very balanced, and as soon as he debuted, he had the title of "Little Deyo", but he couldn't play anything. However, as the so-called "prodigal son does not change money", Rune finally ushered in an explosion in Barcelona this week, defeating Ramos, Baez, Ruud, and Khachanov in a row to advance to the final, and finally defeated Alcaraz with a very good performance to win the championship!

Rooney also had a very exciting interview this week about his past slump, talking about his journey and his current understanding and perception of himself.

"I've made some mistakes in my career so far, like changing coaches a lot. But now, I know better how to focus, where I am on the pitch, and how much fitness I have. All the changes I've made before have put me off track. I used to lose my way, but now I've finally found my way back. I now know that to get to the top, you have to do the right thing and not settle for the next best. ”

When talking about the secret of his victory, Rune admitted that it was largely due to the inspiration that Djokovic won at last year's Olympics. "I wondered, what would Novak do to beat him?" he admitted. I mentally tried to replay last year's Olympic men's singles final, and then I tried to play the style of Novak as well. I'm going to get him to play a lot of rounds and I'm glad I kept my composure and courage when it mattered. ”

And on this point, some clues can be seen in the technical statistics of the whole game: Rune scored 18 winning goals and 24 unforced errors, while Alcaraz scored 16 goals but accompanied by 33 unforced errors! Playing a more aggressive return with less risk was the secret to Roone's victory over Alcaraz.

In addition, there is another statistic worth noting in this game, and that is the percentage of both sides scoring in front of the net: Rune scored 12 points from 16 net attempts, while Alcaraz scored just six points from 15 net attempts. So, although we said that dragging in as many shots as possible was Roone's main tactic today, it was clear that he also took into account that if he wanted to beat Alcaraz, he couldn't just stay on the baseline and fight with him, but also needed to come to the net and put more pressure on Alcaraz.

Returning to Alcaraz's injury problems, in this final, Alcaraz, who played 10 matches in 12 days, finally had physical problems, and excessive exertion and exhaustion caused him to feel a problem with his right adductor muscle during the Barcelona final, and called a medical timeout early in the second set. After the match, according to the newspaper Marca, Alcaraz will undergo an MRI on Monday, this afternoon, to confirm the severity of the injury and decide whether he will be able to play in the Madrid Masters.

Commenting on his injury, Alcalá said, "The second set started with a lot of high-intensity multi-shot rounds, and I felt some soreness in the adductor muscle of my right leg in two rounds. When you're not feeling well, the alarm goes off in your head, it's hard to fully focus on the game, you worry about how you're physically and it's hard to keep going and keep playing. At the moment and how I feel, I feel like I need to rest for two days, of course even if I don't get injured I have to take two days off, and I will communicate with the medical team to do a check-up, but I don't believe it will affect my participation in the Madrid Masters. ”

After Alcaraz lost the final to Barcelona, Zverev won in Munich at the same time, so he regained the world No. 2 position by a narrow margin of five points, although Zverev still has a huge score to secure at the Rome Masters, so the ranking should still be very volatile.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)