Tennis Match Summary:

• The match was played at a fast pace, lasting 2 hours and 49 minutes for four sets.

• Alcaraz led the match with a forehand drop-shot winner off Fritz’s serve, breaking the American in jiffy.

• Fritz improved his return game in the second set, threatening at least three of Alcaraz’s service games.

• Alcaraz was broken to love twice, once in the third game and again in the ninth.

• The tie-break emerged as the microcosm of the contest, with Alcaraz gaining a 4-1 lead only for Fritz to come back to 6-4 and have two shots at stretching the fixture into a decider.

• Alcaraz drew two errors with strokes of enormous depth before earning his first match-point with a powerful pass that Fritz could barely get the racquet to.

• M. Sreeshankar’s return to competition is expected to shake Indian long jump out of its slumber.

• Sreeshankar returned to competition at the Indian Open in Pune on July 12, aiming to book a ticket for September’s World Championships in Tokyo through automatic qualification (8.27m, deadline Aug. 24) or through the World rankings route.

• His return is expected to wake up the event in the country, as Indian long jump appears to have gone into a deep slumber in Sreeshankar’s absence.

• Sreeshankar won silver at the Hangzhou Asian Games (8.19m) and the Bangkok Asian Championships (8.37), finished in the top-three in a Diamond League meet (8.09), and won gold in meets in Greece and the USA