Carlos Alcaraz proved once again why he is just so hard to defeat in the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters against Taylor Fritz.

For much of the first two sets against Fritz in Paris, Alcaraz looked down and out and well on his way to exiting the final Masters tournament of the 2026 ATP Tour season.

Fritz was a set and a break up and looked set to win against Alcaraz at 5-4 in the second set, but the Spaniard had different ideas.

He fended off two match points against Fritz and then battled his way to the next three games in a row to level up the match at one set apiece.

That, and the raucous crowd behind him at the Paris Masters, gave the Spaniard all the confidence he needed to win the decider by a scoreline of 6-3.

But this, of course, is not the first time he has managed to fend off match points to pick up a victory.

All seven times Carlos Alcaraz has won a match after defending match points

• 2026 Paris Masters against Taylor Fritz (two match points saved)
• 2026 Laver Cup against Taylor Fritz (two match points saved)
• 2025 Roland Garros against Jannik Sinner (three match points saved)
• 2023 Cincinnati Open against Hubert Hurkacz (one match point saved)
• 2022 US Open against Jannik Sinner (one match point saved)
• 2022 Roland Garros against Albert Ramos-Vinolas (one match point saved)
• 2022 Barcelona Open against Alex de Minaur (two match points saved)

Most famously, Alcaraz managed the feat in the Roland Garros final against Jannik Sinner as batted off three match points against the Italian to beat the star in five sets.

Sinner has seen the Alcaraz fightback firsthand on two occasions, as he also missed the chance to defeat the Spaniard at the 2022 US Open when Alcaraz saved a match point and knocked him out of the Grand Slam.

Elsewhere, the likes of Hubert Hurkacz, Albert Ramos-Vinolas, and Alex de Minaur have also missed match points against Alcaraz only to go on and lose the match.

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Fritz is in the uncomfortable position of missing the chance to finish Alcaraz off twice in the same season, as he also missed match points as he lost to the Spaniard at the Laver Cup earlier this year.

It’s a particularly gruelling statistic for Fritz, and it will be very difficult for him to recover from, but it is proof that Alcaraz is one of the most resilient players on the ATP Tour.

That is just one of the reasons why he has become one of the more difficult players to play in men’s tennis.