Carlos Alcaraz is no longer in Shanghai after being defeated by a great Dimitrov. He closes the Asian tour, in which he has not had the expected results with that setback in the round of 16 in the Masters 1,000 and before that with the semifinals in Beijing. The Spaniard has indeed conquered, the first time that he plays those tournaments stopped by the pandemic, the public, who saw him live for the first time, in the matches and also in training. In one of them, the images went viral. You can see how Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil practices his drop shots, and the reaction of the fans with each attempt to put the ball in a bin is significant. The truth is that Carlos doesn’t need many attempts to achieve the goal…
The drop shot is a blow that is always there, a great resource but that, in part, has made the Spanish tennis player fashionable again. According to a study by the ATP, which was published on its website last February, the Murcian uses the forehand dropshot 2.83 times per match, with an impressive winning percentage of 67.7 percent, and the backhand dropshot 1 .34 times per match, for a respectable 52.1 percent winning percentage. This pattern is multiplied on clay, where Alcaraz hits his forehand 3.81 times per match and 1.84 times his backhand.
From childhood…
Kiko Navarro, who was his coach when he was a child, said in conversation with this newspaper that since he was little they came naturally to him, although he affirms that he believed that as a professional they would not give him as many points as he is given. Carlos himself recognizes that since he often manages to knock his rivals back with his blows, the subsequent strategy is to make the drop shot when the opponent is so far away. He even sometimes does it to attract the opponent to the net and then beat him with a pass or a lob.
And players like Medvedev admit (he did so at the Mutua Madrid Open in May) that Alcaraz’s dropshots are not the same as another tennis player’s. The Russian had just lost the Indian Wells final against him, clearly. “In some of them [de las dejadas] He said: ‘How? She didn’t expect this, for him to take her from there.’ The next week in Miami a lot of other guys maybe saw the final and started doing just drop shots against me and me: ‘Okay, keep doing them, here I am.’ But against Carlos he wasn’t there,” said the world number three.
2023-10-12 12:30:58
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