Carlos Alcaraz vs Tommy Paul EPIC Match | Cincinnati 2023 Extended Highlights

If that's anything to go by. That is a big point straight away here. Well, to get more things starting to heat up. As Colin mentioned at the start of the match speed around the court. Is breathtaking at times in this match again. It was an awkward short ball he had to deal with, but he. Played that short forehand beautifully, pushed it into the gap, was waiting for the volley. And Tommy Paul leads four games to two is the first to strike. Well, well, well, maybe Tommy Paul's. Alcor as his kryptonite. Clips the line featured a bit of everything. Couple of funky shots along the way. Couple of bunts, just anything really get the ball back into play sometimes. Was it just me or did Carlitos think about the hot dog here through the legs and then maybe just wait a minute. This is a break point. I need this one. Beautifully nice and apology. Quite sure why the breeze just helping that ball 4015 back in onto that sideline. Game Alcor. It's nice change up. Maybe signs that Alcor as is about to come to life. Well, Paul will be wishing he served only again there because Alcor is just chipping the return into play. And once he gets into the point, well, that's where he comes to life. Unbelievable running for honey. So dangerous out that corner. Game out exquisite folly. Wrestled the momentum his way, hasn't he? Over the last 1015 minutes and. Appears to be growing in confidence. Yeah, certainly is look out. Because having come back to five, all here just seems to relaxed and. It's too saved some of the crowds already celebrating. They thought it was over. But they forgot he's facing. The phenomenon that is Carlos Alcor as. Yeah, whoever that guy is, he's never seen Alcor as play before. Do point isn't over until he's had his say. Look at the skills, it's just he's got it all. Eventually, just too much for Tommy Paul. And that might well rattle him. Having lost that point, he must have thought he was through the game. Oh goodness, may drop to some shorts and that's the outcome. Absolute rocket off the 5 for Spaniard strings. Just special show didn't really have much width to work with, but just. Brilliant movement comes forward so quickly. Such a big point. It's almost like time stops. Seven Alcor as Alcor is winding up for the forehand. What's he going to do? And this time it's the drop shot and Tommy Paul nothing he could do about it. Carlos Alcor as steals. An absorbing opening set. Against Tommy Paul, that's one of the many reasons he is the world number one. It was the battling qualities this time on display. It's taken it in 62 minutes. 1530 employing Tommy Paul's tech. Yeah, different story this time. It does seem to just. So good because well, he did really have to with Tommy Paul. 50 very deep in the core, but it always just having a bit of fun here and using the breeze on the drop shot. Just hanging it out. It's got him again this time with the volley. Yeah, that's how high his standards are. He put himself into position. Once more. Oh, beautiful. Took it so early. Oh, it's just in time. Rock solid from Tommy Paul had exactly the right time. Corner to corner. Well, he chose not to follow the penultimate forehand to the net. Just wondered if it would cost him. But it proved to be the right decision. Big strike into the corner just too much for our. This time he does convert and he converts. At the perfect time, really. Ferocious forehands and then. The killer drop shot once more. How good was that? 5430 all to produce that sort of touch. Well, it's as good as it gets for me in terms of a drop shot. I love the trajectory and the speed he played it with. It wasn't a sort of high floater. It was just quick, almost like a short ball as much as a drop shot. Quick and saved Carlos. Activity this time before. Another quite brilliant backup pass. Well, he actually showed great composure here because he got himself in a complete mess trying to hit a forehand. But he just. Kept his focus on the point and what a pass he does. Dipped in as well, remarkable. So you think you felt so? Almost got him again. At any of the lines, but it didn't need to be because it was almost impossible for the American to. Change direction here. Quite saved. Oh, just wide. Knowledge on center court. It's one of the most bizarre points. Three saved. Tommy Paul takes us into a decider. He saved three match points. Produces a 7-0 tiebreak. And we are going the distance. Again, out of ground. Somebody in the firing line. 40-50. Intensity from the Spaniards. Second, but it's another game. He is away so. Alcaraz steam train will be. Switching to. Alcaraz leads. Bullet train mode. It's just brilliant defending. It's a little tentative, wasn't he with that forehand Alcaraz? To return again, he's had a couple of beauties in this game. The quarterfinals here at the Western and Southern Open. He gets his revenge from last week after Tommy Paul beat him hours later after they first made their way onto center court this afternoon. It is Alcaraz who prevails. Come through against Tommy Paul and will take on Max Purcell in the quarterfinals tomorrow.