It was worth getting up early today to see Carlos Alcaraz in action. With only 18 years old has put the number 7 in the world on the ropes, Berrettini. He was left with honey on his lips, but here there is a tennis player and a great one.
And he is getting stronger, because the sleeveless shirt he wore at the Australian Open shows his great physical change. Fewer and fewer children, the Murcian has gained muscle and it shows.
“You can perfectly do three and a half hours of fitness a day”
He came into our lives as a lanky teenager with a whip on his right arm: “When we started working with him he was in 68 kilos“, he explained to Antenna 3 Sports the physical trainer of Murcia, Alberto Lledo.
From that image to the new one that you have shown in the Open de Australia they have barely passed three years: “We are in more than 60 kilos of muscular mass and in almost 80 kilos of weight”.
And that is noticeable even in his social network profile: the difference is obvious. Alcaraz has given everything in physical work: “He can perfectly do three and a half hours of physical activity a day.”
What is necessary to fill the gas tank to face a season of 40 weeks. And, above all, to adapt to the demands of modern tennis: “Little by little we are going to see taller, stronger tennis players who move better.” And in this too, Alcaraz is an outstanding student: “He will not be one of the tallest, but he will be one of the strongest and fastest.”
details to be polished
He has shown it in Australia, despite having lost to the seventh seed: “We can still improve a lot of things. In mobility there are little details that we can polish”.
He has the whole future ahead of him, because despite his new corpulence, this young man from Murcia El Palmar he is barely 18 years old.
