Carlos Alcaraz grew to become the primary participant to earn 60 tour-level wins in 2023 on Sunday when he defeated Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-2, 6-2 to succeed in the quarter-finals on the China Open in Beijing.

The highest-seeded Spaniard overpowered Musetti together with his explosive groundstrokes, placing 18 winners and breaking the Italian’s serve 4 occasions to enhance to 2-1 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head collection towards the 21-year-old.

“Right now was an ideal match for me,” Alcaraz stated. “You’ll be able to enhance and be higher each day however I used to be happy with my tennis taking part in this stage. I performed top quality, nice photographs and an amazing return recreation. It was an amazing match and I loved taking part in immediately. I take pleasure in China.”

Together with his 81-minute victory, Alcaraz improved to 16-1 at ATP 500 occasions, highlighted by title runs in Barcelona and at The Queen’s Membership. The 20-year-old will look to earn his seventeenth win at this stage when he takes on Casper Ruud within the final eight.

“A purpose for me immediately was to start out robust,” Alcaraz added. “Attempt to push him to the restrict in the beginning. Attempting to dominate the match, not make him really feel snug. Transfer him and never let him hit his photographs.”

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Alcaraz started the Asian Swing behind World No. 1 Novak Djokovic within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin, however may shut that hole to 315 factors by profitable his first title since Wimbledon in Beijing. The Spaniard has earned a Tour-leading six trophies in 2023.

Seventh seed Ruud set a gathering with Alcaraz after edging previous Tomas Martin Etcheverry 1-6, 7-5, 7-6(7) on the ATP 500. The Norwegian trailed 0/4 within the third-set tie-break earlier than combating again to prevail on his third match level after two hours and 59 minutes.

“It was not the very best begin. I used to be struggling a bit with the shade and the solar at the start,” Ruud stated. “I bought a great begin within the second set. I broke him straight away and that was what I wanted to get the match going. Two actually tight units that went in my favour however I’m actually joyful. It was a very robust battle.”

Ruud might want to carry out strongly in the course of the Asian Swing if he’s to spice up his Nitto ATP Finals qualification hopes. The 24-year-old, who reached the title match on the year-end occasion in 2022, is presently tenth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin.