Mutua Madrid Open: Katie Boulter and Jack Draper overwhelmed as Carlos Alcaraz makes successful begin | Tennis Information

Brits Katie Boulter and Jack Draper exited the Mutua Madrid Open on Friday as defending champion Carlos Alcaraz made a successful begin to his marketing campaign.

On her most important draw debut within the Spanish capital, Boulter regarded comfy enjoying within the altitude and took the opening set in comfy style.

However 19-year-old American Montgomery battled again to clinch a surprising 1-6 6-3 6-4 towards the twenty sixth seed and attain the third spherical of the Masters 1000 occasion.

Draper was knocked out after dropping in straight units to Hubert Hurkacz.

The world No 9 reached the third spherical of the event with a 6-1 7-5 victory over the Briton.

Hurkacz cruised by the opening set, main 5-0 earlier than Draper pulled one again and hit his third ace of the match within the seventh on his method to sealing the set.

Draper took the primary sport of the second set and Hurkacz levelled with a trendy drop shot on the web, however Draper started to edge forward.

Nevertheless, Hurkacz levelled at 5-5 and turned the match again in his favour, breaking Draper within the eleventh sport earlier than securing his spot within the subsequent spherical with a unbelievable forehand slammed down the precise on match level.

Defending champion Alcaraz additionally received off to a successful begin with a 6-2 6-1 win towards Alexander Shevchenko.

The Spaniard broke Shevchenko seven occasions all through the match in a dominant victory which noticed him arrange a third-round assembly with Thiago Seyboth Wild.

Talking on Sky Sports activities after his victory, Alcaraz – who has now gained 12 consecutive matches in Madrid – mentioned: “I think I did pretty well, honestly the last month I just practiced slices, volleys and backhands, so I think it worked pretty well today.

“That is one thing I used to be interested by approaching this match, attempting to hit the forehand actually softer and I am attempting to be aggressive with the backhand, attempting to crash the online as quickly as potential. I believe I did a very good match in that half.”

Alcaraz missed the earlier Monte-Carlo and Barcelona tournaments as a consequence of harm and was sporting a compression sleeve on his proper arm in the course of the sport.

When requested if his arm was nonetheless troubling him, Alcaraz replied: “Not at all, but I’m thinking about it.

“It is not going to depart my thoughts I believe… coming into this week, I have been doing good issues in observe, hitting tougher, however I am not feeling comfy enjoying my forehand 100 per cent.

“But I think playing at this level, I’m really happy to do it. I think I can be competitive.”

Andrey Rublev gained his spherical two conflict with a straight-sets victory towards Facundo Bagnis, whereas defending girls’s champion Aryna Sabalenka additionally received off to a successful begin after beating Magda Linette 6-4 3-6 6-3 within the second spherical.

World No 4 Elena Rybakina, who gained the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Sunday, additionally reached the third spherical with a 6-3 6-4 win over Lucia Bronzetti.

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