Overview
- Carlos Alcaraz won 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour 35 minutes, breaking once per set and saving all three break points he faced.
- The victory sets up a third-round match with No. 32 seed Sebastian Korda, who beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-0, 6-3.
- This was Alcaraz and Joao Fonseca’s first ATP Tour meeting after an exhibition in Miami last December that Alcaraz also won.
- Fonseca, coming off a two-tiebreak loss to Jannik Sinner at Indian Wells, said Alcaraz’s broader ‘arsenal’ made him tougher to read than Sinner’s precise power.
- Alcaraz praised the 19-year-old’s potential and framed the back-to-back tests versus the world’s top two as valuable, while the win lifted his Masters 1000 win rate to 78.1%, edging Roger Federer’s 77.9%.