Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz, winner of USOpen 2022, is out from USopen 2024 in the 2nd round to Botic Van de Zandschulp 6-1, 7-5, 6-4.
Crowd in SHOCK. I am in SHOCK too.
That was a career best fantastic performance by Botic and simultaneously the worst grand slam match ever played by Carlos Alcaraz. Seems like he wasn’t willing to fight as we’ve seen him do in so many grand slams in the past.
https://m.stacker.news/48976
More:
https://www.atptour.com/en/news/alcaraz-van-de-zandschulp-us-open-2024-thursday
Wow huge upset.
straight sets, wow
The key stat was that Van de Zandschulp won the point on 28 of his 35 trips to the net.
https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/41049578/carlos-alcaraz-stunned-botic-van-de-zandschulp-us-open
https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/completed_matches/index.html
You can see match stats by clicking on the recap
Botic also served better
I think Alcaraz was tired from playing the French, Wimbledon and Olympics