Brutal Alcaraz crushes Auger-Aliassime to reach final

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.

Carlos Alcaraz is the fourth Spanish tennis player to reach the Olympic men's singles final 🇪🇸

Rafa Nadal was the last to achieve the feat when he won Gold at Beijing 2008 🇪🇸🥇

16 years later, will history repeat itself?#Paris2024 | #CloserToYourChampions pic.twitter.com/lLrE305Ah9 — SuperSport 🏆 (@SuperSportTV) August 2, 2024

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.