
The American Frances Tiafoe beat the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, world number 1, this Sunday. in a decisive third set of the exhibition match they played in Newark (New Jersey), just outside of New York.
Tiafoe, number 30 in the ATP ranking, He got rid of Alcaraz with partial scores of 6-3, 3-6 and 10-7 in a duel with great points, full of fun, and it was an attractive moment of the ‘A Racquet at The Rock’ programming.
Before the singles match against Tiafoe, the two had faced each other in mixed doubles at 10 matched points, respectively, with Americans Jessica Pegula and Amanda Anisimova.
In this mixed doubles, Pegula and Alcaraz They beat Tiafoe and Anisimova 10-8.
After his exhibition in New York, Alcaraz will travel to Miami, where he will participate this Monday, in another tennis exhibition, cwith the young Brazilian Joao Fonseca, number 24 in the ATP.
This event (“Miami Invitational”) will take place on a tennis court built inside the MLB Miami Marlins stadium.
There will also be a mixed doubles in which Alcaraz and Pegula will repeat as a pair, while Anisimova will have Fonseca as his running mate.