Carlos Alcaraz was not ready for the occasion when he moved within touching distance of another Queen’s Club title. In the final stages of a bruising second-set tie-break, the score at 5-5, Alcaraz betrayed his nerves with a double fault under pressure from a soaring Jiri Lehecka. He soon found himself battling in a final set he would have preferred to avoid.
Alcaraz handled this moment of adversity with the self-assurance and courage he has shown so many times before while demonstrating his growing maturity as he refocused to close out the in-form Czech 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 and triumph at Queen’s Club for the second time in his career.
