Carlos Alcaraz got here by way of a difficult early check on the French Open with flying colors, because the world primary sealed a 6-1 3-6 6-1 6-2 victory over Japan’s Taro Daniel on Wednesday to achieve the third spherical.
Alcaraz loved a dominant opening win over Flavio Cobolli in his first match as the highest seed in a Grand Slam and the 20-year-old made one other blistering begin in opposition to Daniel to ease by way of the primary set on the again of two breaks.
Daniel pounced early within the subsequent to seize a 3-0 lead earlier than Alcaraz obtained on the board. He continued to batter the all of a sudden error-prone Spaniard with some relentless hitting from the baseline earlier than levelling the competition.
However the Japanese participant, who’s ranked 112, was shortly on the again foot once more as Alcaraz regained focus to interrupt early and shut out the third set in type conceding just one recreation late on.
With regular service having resumed, Alcaraz closed out the match on serve to ebook an encounter with Canadian twenty sixth seed Denis Shapovalov.