Alcaraz, who is playing his first tournament of the season in Buenos Aires, defeated Djere with partial scores of 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2, in the last match of the day on the central court of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, before about 5 thousand spectators.
The Spaniard took a quick lead by breaking Djere’s serve in the third game of the match, and repeated the break in the seventh game to then clinch the opening set 6-2 in half an hour of action.
The development was a little more even in the second set, because Alcaraz lowered the intensity a bit and the Serbian found the opportunity to get into the match, and with a break in the tenth game he captured the second set 6-4.
But Djere failed at the start of the last set, with an erratic first service game, and Alcaraz did not forgive to start that decisive moment with an advantage that he later knew how to maintain, and increased that distance with another break in the seventh game, to seal the victory. with his serve, in two hours of play.
In the quarterfinals, the player born in El Palmar will face the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (90th), who in the previous duel eliminated the Argentine Camilo Ugo Carabelli (127th) 6-3, 6-1.