On the American Labour Day holiday, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz wasted little time in blowing past Italian Matteo Arnaldi 6-3 6-3 6-4 to reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals on Monday.
Through the first week of the season's final Grand Slam, the world number one has been putting in routine shifts and has dropped only one set en route to the last eight.
In Alcaraz's rear view mirror are relative unknowns, like Arnaldi and Dominik Koepfer, but ahead of him lurk familiar danger men such as Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev. There have been a few hiccups and lapses but the 20-year-old's raw talent, power and a repertoire of weapons make him the man to beat and on track for another showdown with arch rival Novak Djokovic.
It took a few games for Alcaraz to size up his opponent but once the Spaniard did, it was pretty much one way traffic.
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