{"id":86556,"date":"2025-04-12T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=86556"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:51:48","slug":"alcaraz-soars-past-davidovich-fokia-reaches-monte-carlo-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/alcaraz-soars-past-davidovich-fokia-reaches-monte-carlo-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz soars past Davidovich Fokia, reaches Monte-Carlo final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0continued his impressive start to his clay campaign on Saturday at the\u00a0Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, where he reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final in 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Spaniard earned a hard-fought 7-6(2), 6-4 victory over countryman\u00a0Alejandro Davidovich Fokina\u00a0to advance to his first final at this level since winning Indian Wells last March. Alcaraz let slip three set points in a testing, 65-minute opener and ultimately needed six match points before reaching his 23rd tour-level final.<\/p>\n<p>Now into his third consecutive clay-court final after winning\u00a0Roland Garros\u00a0and claiming a silver medal at the\u00a0Paris Olympics\u00a0last year, Alcaraz awaits\u00a0Alex de Minaur\u00a0or\u00a0Lorenzo Musetti. The No. 3 in the PIF ATP Rankings is chasing his maiden Masters 1000 trophy on the surface outside of Madrid (2022-23).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time,\u201d said Alcaraz of his 13-month drought in Masters 1000 finals. \u201cI just had to be patient and believe that this moment was going to come again. Sometimes the people are not patient, they want me to make the final in every tournament. I\u2019m really happy to give them the chance to watch one of my finals again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zbc5_ufi7Dk?si=6ib4s5JP_x0MYK9M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If Alcaraz claims his first Monte-Carlo crown on Sunday, he will surpass\u00a0Alexander Zverev\u00a0for World No. 2. Just by reaching the final, the Spaniard has overtaken\u00a0Jannik Sinner\u00a0to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.<\/p>\n<p>While Alcaraz fired a rasping 164 km\/h forehand winner down the line early on, it was that wing that caused him problems when attempting to close out a tightly-contested opening set. The 21-year-old hit back-to-back forehand unforced errors to drop serve at 5-3, adding to his total tally of 11 on that side during that set.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz responded well to letting slip three set points, however, and rediscovered his form in a watertight tie-break. The 17-time tour-level champion let out a mighty roar when sealing the set, which signalled the start of further dominance on Court Rainier III.<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina\u2019s dogged defence was on full display throughout the semi-final clash, highlighted by a gutsy 13-minute hold for 1-2 in the second. Yet it proved to be nothing more than a consolation, with Alcaraz continuing to command from the baseline. He did not face a break point in the second set, according to Infosys ATP Stats, en route to improving to 2-0 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Davidovich Fokina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I played really good tennis from the beginning until the last point,\u201d added Alcaraz. \u201cI tried to take the chances he gave me in the match. He saved a lot of break points and match points, but I\u2019m really happy to [have] thought about myself. The most important thing is that I\u2019m feeling great physically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his run to the semi-finals in Monte-Carlo, Davidovich Fokina secured his return to the Top 30 of the PIF ATP Rankings for the first time since last May. The 2022 runner-up was aiming to reach his third ATP Tour final of the season (Delray Beach, Acapulco), but was unable to contain Alcaraz once he found his range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaniard chasing sixth ATP Masters 1000 crown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alcaraz soars past Davidovich Fokia, reaches Monte-Carlo final - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/alcaraz-soars-past-davidovich-fokia-reaches-monte-carlo-final\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alcaraz soars past Davidovich Fokia, reaches Monte-Carlo final - 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