Paris Olympics: Alcaraz to meet Djokovic in final

Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after beating Felix Auger-Aliassime. Photo: Reuters/Claudia Greco

Paris: Spain's Carlos Alcaraz powered into the Olympic singles final with a brutal 6-1, 6-1 thrashing of overwhelmed Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime at Roland Garros on Friday.

The 21-year-old second seed is bidding to add the Olympic gold to the French Open and Wimbledon titles he won recently and was in devastating form on Court Philippe Chatrier.

From the moment Auger-Aliassime double-faulted to hand over an early service break it was one-way traffic a ruthless Alcaraz wrapped up the victory in little more than an hour.

Alcaraz will face top seed Novak Djokovic in Sunday's gold-medal match. Djokovic outplayed Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2 in the second semifinal.

Auger-Aliassime still has the possibility of taking home two medals as he will contest the bronze medal match in the mixed doubles later alongside Gabriela Dabrowski.

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