Rising Tennis Stars Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner Gear Up for 2024 Season

After another exceptional season from Carlos Alcaraz (20 years old) and a meteoric end to the year from Jannik Sinner (22), in 2023, the Spaniard and the Italian have confirmed their status as great diamonds on the circuit. After Novak Djokovic, who won three of the four Grand Slams of the season, they have been the two big names of the tennis season. They are called to fill the unfathomable void that the Big Three will end up leaving behind. For now, it is expected that they will once again be two of the players with the best results in 2024. And they have already started. Hand in hand This Thursday, Alcaraz and Sinner shared a training session at the Ferrero Tennis Academy in Villena. “A good day of practice,” the transalpine posted on his social networks. “Thank you Sinner for coming to train Equelite Ferrero! Great morning and great session. “Warming up for 2024!” wrote the Spaniard.

As AS explained, Alcaraz began his preseason on Monday of last week, December 11. Training with Sinner was one of the touchstones scheduled in the preparation plan. The Italian, who this Thursday was accompanied by one of his coaches, Simone Vagnozzi, has been living in Alicante for several days. Carlitos, for his part, trained under the watchful eye of both Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel López, the coach who will accompany him at the Australian Open (January 14 to 28). Ferrero, after an arthroscopy on his left knee, will not travel with his pupil until the American tour, starting with Indian Wells (March 6 to 17).

After the session with Sinner, Alcaraz, who yesterday trained with another Italian pearl, Flavio Cobolli (21 years old), will spend Christmas at home. Afterwards, he will fly to Saudi Arabia to face Novak Djokovic at the Riyadh Season Tennis Cup (next Wednesday, the 27th). Without pause, the next day, Charly will return to Murcia to play an exhibition against Roberto Bautista. Already on Australian soil, he will give shape to two other exhibitions in Melbourne, on January 10 and 12. It will be the end of a roadmap designed to reach the Australian Open in optimal conditions, a tournament that Carlitos missed due to injury last year. His ceiling so far is in the third round, reached in 2022.

a long friendship

In this way, Alcaraz will arrive at the Oceanic Grand Slam after several high-level tests. Among them, this Thursday against Sinner, with whom he maintains a good friendship since the lower categories, in which they met repeatedly. “You deserve it Jannik! “I’m very happy for you!”, for example, Charly wrote to Jannik this year after the Italian won the Canadian Masters 1,000. “Every game against him is very hard. We always show great respect for each other, we play very well and we try to push ourselves to the limit,” Sinner dedicated to Alcaraz after beating him in Beijing. So far, they have faced each other seven times in official matches with one more victory for the Italian. In 2024, several more confrontations are expected between the two.

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2023-12-21 16:20:13
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