 Holger Ruiner vs. Carlos Alcaraz is the second quarterfinal for the Paris Masters for 2022 and both players have had different roads to get to the quarterfinal stage. Ruiner started the tournament off unseated and will take on Stan Vavrinck at the veteran in the first round and after losing the first set he had to come back and fight for the win eventually beating Stan in three, four, six, seven, five, seven, six. In the second round Ruiner would take on the number 10 seed, Hercatch, who's playing for an A2B finals spot but Ruiner would take out Hercatch and take out his chances of making the A2B finals, winning in straight sets, seven, five, six, one. In the third round he take on another player who was playing for an A2B final spot, number seven seed, Rublev and again Ruiner was not intimidated by a top 10 guy beating Rublev in straight sets, six, four, seven, five to advance to the quarterfinals. Alcaraz came into the tournament as the number one seed and for the first time in a big tournament playing as the number one player he forgot to buy in the first round. In second round he took on Nishioka but this was a straightforward match up for him as Alcaraz prevailed in straights, six, four, six, four. In the third round he take on the veteran Demetrov and again just like the Nishioka match Alcaraz had no trouble getting through in straight sets, six, one, six, three to get to the quarterfinals of Paris. These guys have only played the one time before, that was at the next gen finals at the end of last year with a weird sort of scoring system and Alcaraz won that match but I don't think there's much we can look into that one because of the way they score that being at four, two, four, three. It's not really a proper match so they really haven't played a serious match yet. If Runa is going to win he has to be fearless. Both these guys have that fearlessness in them but Holgaruna doesn't have anything to lose. Alcaraz is the number one so he's expected to win. Runa's got to come out, be super aggressive, they know each other's game well because they are friends but Holgaruna he's going to have to be aggressive and not be on the back end of that Alcaraz aggressive game. If Alcaraz is going to win he needs to be the one who gets aggressive first and also we need to see how his knee holds up because he has been having trouble with a knee this week which could be a weakness so he has to be more aggressive than probably usual because he doesn't want to run around too much against this kid. This is going to be a very fun matchup. As I mentioned they're both friends they're both kind of growing up together both 19 year olds very exciting players but I'm going to go with Alcaraz. I think experience is on Alcaraz's side just a little bit because Runa hasn't really made it to the heights of heights yet he's had a very good year but Alcaraz had a better year and I'm going to go with Alcaraz in three sets but it's going to be fun fireworks two fearless players going at it who do you think is going to win this matchup?