The young man from Murcia won 6-2 and 6-3 in the second round against Slovakian Norbert Gombos (117th) and in the next stage of the competition he will face Argentine Facundo Bagnis (120th), who won 6- 3 and 6-1 against Frenchman Corentin Moutet, 116th player in the world.
Alcaraz also got his 40th win of the 2022 season.
The 19-year-old Spanish tennis player premiered his ATP record in Umag last year. This season he added another four titles to his private account, including the Masters 1000 in Miami and Madrid.
Last Sunday, Alcaraz suffered a disappointment when he lost his first ATP final, in Hamburg against the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
Bagnis will be the Argentine hope in the quarterfinals of Umag, after the elimination of the other representative of his country, Sebastián Báez (32nd), who was defeated (3-6, 6-1, 7-5) by Franco Agamenone, Argentine by birth but nationalized Italian and number 136 in the ‘ranking’.
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