Carlos Alcaraz triumphs in Rotterdam: First indoor victory celebrated!

Carlos Alcaraz triumphs in Rotterdam: First indoor victory celebrated!

On February 9, 2025, Carlos Alcaraz celebrated his first tournament victory in 2025 at the highly doped ATP500 hard court event in Rotterdam. The Spanish tennis star prevailed against the Australian Alex de Minaur in the exciting final and defeated him 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 2 after almost two hours. With this victory, the 17th of his career on the ATP tour, Alcaraz showed that despite a slight cooling that was initially plagued by it, he is in impressive form. "It was a really good week for me," he said after the match, in which he was able to win his first indoor tournament, which has made him the first player since Lleyton Hewitt in 2004, who triumphed when he was participating in Rotterdam. In addition, Alcaraz is now the youngest player who can celebrate tournament victories on all coverings-sand, grass, hard court and indoor-like OE24 reported .

Before Alcaraz triumphed in the final, he demonstrated his dominance at the Rotterdam Open in the early rounds. In an impressive quarter -finals he gave his compatriot Pedro Martinez no chance and won 6: 2, 6: 1. With this appearance, he made it clear that after moving from the South American tournaments to the hard places in Europe, he was well prepared. Alcaraz performed strongly throughout the tournament and did not allow a single breakpoint in the entire game against Martinez. Tennis Infinity already reported that Alcaraz against the Dutch Favorite Botic van de Zandschulp, the In the past, defeated him, took his revenge and struggled. This remarkable competition strength underlines its ambitions to continue to dominate the tennis world.

parallel to Alcaraz 'Success in Rotterdam was the Canadian Denis Shapovalov at the ATP500 tournament in Dallas a further career success by defeating number two, Casper Ruud, 7: 6 (5), 6: 3. This victory will give Shapovalov, who is now in 32th place in the ranking, and have a significant impact on his upcoming games.