<p>Carlos Alcaraz crashed out of the Qatar Open in the quarter-finals on Thursday after losing to Jiri Lehecka.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Top seed Alcaraz dropped the first set before recovering to level, and then led by a break in the decider, but World No. 25 Lehecka won the final four games 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alcaraz entered the clash on a seven-match winning streak following his triumph in Rotterdam earlier this month, but ran into trouble against a confident Lehecka, who won his second career title in Brisbane to start the year.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Honestly, I don&rsquo;t know what I could have done better,&rdquo; said Alcaraz. &ldquo;I have to give credit to him as well, because when he was down, especially in the third set, he didn&rsquo;t give up. He was returning pretty well, really aggressively, no mistakes, or almost no mistakes,&rdquo; he added.</p>
<p>Lehecka, 23, will play British eighth seed Jack Draper on Friday for a place in the final. The Czech is through to the last four in Doha for the second time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I feel great. To win a match like that against a player like this is a super big achievement. I believed in myself and knew I had the level to produce this kind of tennis. I believed in my game and did not back down,&rdquo; an ecstatic Lehecka said.</p>
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Top seed Alcaraz dropped the first set before recovering to level, and then led by a break in the decider, but World No. 25 Lehecka won the final four games 6-3

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Top seed Alcaraz dropped the first set before recovering to level, and then led by a break in the decider, but World No. 25 Lehecka won the final four games 6-3, 3-6, 6-4

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