After battling over two hours to defeat Tomas Martin Etcheverry the day before, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, Alcaraz was in no danger whatsoever as he played Bublik for the first time in his career on Friday.
There were a few tricky moments very early on—Alcaraz broke early en route to a 2-0 lead, but Bublik won three games in a row, which included getting the break back, to go up 3-2, on serve.
But Alcaraz rolled from there, reeling off 10 games in a row—with only one of them going to deuce—to completely run away with it against the world No. 11 after just 63 minutes on court.
Awaiting the No. 1-seeded Alcaraz in the semifinals will be the winner of the last quarterfinal match between No. 5-seeded Alex de Minaur and unseeded Valentin Vacherot.
