Carlos Alcaraz He has between eyebrows to achieve his first Grand Slam. The Murcian tennis player has landed in Paris with great confidence in his chances of conquering Roland Garros. It is his first tournament after his great performance in the Mutua Madrid Open and in France all eyes are on the young Spanish tennis player. In the tournament facilities he is one of the most fans who congregate on the courts and at Roland Garros they have already nicknamed him ‘Hulk’, after he broke some stretching ropes.
the of El Palmar he is even the protagonist of the cover of the Gallic newspaper L’Equipe, who, in addition, has dedicated five pages to him in an extensive report on him. «I said that I wanted to win a Grand Slam this year and I am going for it in Paris. It will be difficult, but I see myself with options to achieve it, “he said. Carlos Alcaraz A few days ago at the Murcia Region Sports Gala, just before heading to the French capital. Already there, the pupil of John Charles Ferrero took a bath of crowds during his first training at the facilities of Roland Garroswhere he shared track with Diego Schwartzman. The Murcian has become the great attraction in each tournament and nobody wants to miss the opportunity to see the tennis player everyone talks about in action.
After his great week in Madridwhere he beat tennis players like Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic y Alexander Zverev in one fell swoop, alcaraz He arrives as one of the great candidates for the title in this French Grand Slam. And that is only his second participation on the Parisian clay. Last year he made his debut after overcoming the preliminary phase and fell in the third round. He now starts as one of the top seeds and the draw has made him share a table with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic the other two great favorites to take the title in the Philippe Chatrier.
???? Alcaraz, appetite for ocher
⚽️ Saint-Etienne: a match to save face
the front pages of L’Équipe newspaper for this Friday, May 20
Read the edition > https://t.co/mIyuPia717 pic.twitter.com/AocjktHeTN— THE TEAM (@theteam) May 20, 2022
expectations with Carlos Alcaraz are such that the French newspaper The Team He even dedicates the cover to the young Spanish tennis player this Friday, before the first round of the Grand Slam is played. The Murcian takes the protagonism away from Kylian Mbappé, whose end of the soap opera about his future will take place this Sunday according to the aforementioned newspaper. Alcaraz is the great protagonist, with up to five pages dedicated to the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero.
“Ochre Appetite”
‘Appetite for ochre’ is the title in France, in reference to the color of the beaten earth of Roland Garros already the desire to Carlos Alcaraz to record his name in the list of winners of the French Grand Slam. They point to him as the main attraction of the tournament and have traveled to El Palmar to recount the tennis player’s childhood. The Gallic country is excited about the new phenomenon of world tennis.
Hulk mode ???? @alcarazcarlo03 ???? #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/UKEPhn5rbw
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 19, 2022
From this Thursday, alcaraz He knows what his path is at Roland Garros, where he could meet Nadal or Djokovic again in a hypothetical semifinal. The Murcian will make his debut against a player from the qualifiers and he arrives prepared for everything, even for a hostile climate in the event that he faces a Frenchman, as happened to him during the Masters 1000 of Paris-Bercy last year.
There, he fell in the round of 16 against Hugo Gaston, in a game in which he had the stands against him. «That meeting has come to mind, but I hope that experience will serve me so that something like this does not happen to me again. I know that if I meet another Frenchman again in Roland Garros It will be the same or worse, “said the Murcian.
