US Open 2022 We discovered what little Carlitos was like, the defects and the virtues of number 1 in tennis
Lor Carlos Alcaraz and tennis is a love story at first sight. From a very young age, his father took him to Murcia Country Club to hit a few rackets and play sports. At first it was just entertainment, but it soon turned into something more. AntonioCarlos’s neighbor since he was born, I already saw it coming: “Carlitos pointed out ways since he was little.”
More than one tennis ball has fallen to the street from the roof of his house in The Palmar. “These are children’s things,” say some neighbors who are delighted that Alcaraz has reached the top of tennis so quickly: “On the terrace there has always been some rallying, in fact in the street there were always tennis balls that bounced off the roof. This sport was his passion and I hope that, in the future, we can talk about something historic in terms of Grand Slam titles,” Antonio hopes.
Carlos is not convinced by that “Carlitos”. He prefers to be called “Charly”. And probably in New York too. There he has signed the assault on number 1 in the ATP ranking a “true disaster”. This is how he describes it -laughing- Kiko Navarro, Carlos’s coach from the ages of 9 to 17 and one of the people who knows him best.
“He is a very messy guy. We throw in the towel with that. You had to be on top of him when it came to rackets, fists and strings.” Navarro confesses that it was even difficult for him to prepare his bag to go to training: “I had to be aware that he brought water to training! You will think that it is impossible, but in that aspect It was a disaster. And off the track too.
The years have served Charly to order his life, his ideas and his goals. That, and his extraordinary capacity for work, have led him to become a icon for its Murcian neighbors and for tennis fans worldwide.
