Top tennis tips of the week. After the last seven days, you shouldn’t miss these names

The Madrid Open is over and it brought some very interesting performances. The men’s part of the tournament had a surprise finalist and the women’s part even had an unexpected winner. Check out the names worth remembering ahead of the French Open.

Aryna Sabalenka

On Saturday, she took on Iza Swiatek in her final match. Although the two players compete quite often, the Belarusian hasn’t been able to win a duel on clay yet. This time she succeeded with her aggressive play against the world number one.

The match between the two top-seeded tennis players was a real highlight of the Spanish tournament and brought three sets. Aryna Sabalenka lost her 3:0 lead in the decider, but still went on to win the tournament. She won after sets 6::3, 3::6, 6::3.

Majar Sharif

The Egyptian tennis player is maturing like wine. Two years ago she won her first WTA tournament, last year she won two, and in the last few weeks the 27-year-old has achieved an outstanding result in a WTA 1000 tournament. Her debut.

The Cairo native reached the quarter-finals in Madrid. She was up against the new champion Sabalenka. Before that, Sharif took on the top-seeded Ukrainian Kalinina, world number five Caroline Garcia and Belgium’s Elise Mertens. Fourteen days before the French Open, very promising results.

Carlos Alcaraz

The expected show finally took place. The opponent of the Spanish darling Carlito in the final was Germany’s Struff, who rewrote historical milestones by just advancing to the final match of the tournament. No one had done that before him at the Masters from the position of a lucky loser.

Jan-Lennard Struff was an equal opponent for the home player in the first set. He threatened almost every game the Spaniard served. But the German tennis player would certainly have liked to have been more successful with his first serve. It was only 40%, which was also the reason why Alcaraz managed two break points. Set Alcaraz.

It was Struff’s first serve success rate that improved in the second set. He soon won the Spaniard’s serve and also recorded the highest success rate in attacks on the net. The second set was won by the outsider of the match 6::3 and the sets were tied.

In the deciding set, Carlos Alcaraz showed why he wins match after match. A reliable and strong first serve, nine winning strokes against only one unforced error.

After breaking for 3:1, Carlito never lost a ball on his serve. After almost two and a half hours of play, he defended his tournament triumph in Madrid and will almost certainly become the world number one after the upcoming Masters tournament in Rome.

Jan-Lennard Struff

Jan-Lennard Struff is another hero of recent days. Apart from the aforementioned rewriting of historical performances from the position of a beaten qualifier, the overall form of the German is also worth mentioning. He has a match record of 12::4 over the last month and players like Ruud and Tsisipas have finished on his racket.

After the Madrid Open, he moves into the top ten on the rankings. At 33 years of age, he is coming off his highest ever ranking.

Source: ATP