January 26, 2024, 5:29 p.m.
Melbourne.- “I want to play here against him,I want to reach the final and I hope to play against Novak“says Carlos Alcaraz. It’s January 13.
“Taking records from legends like Björn Borg is always appreciated, always good. But What I want to beat are Djokovic’s records“says Carlos Alcaraz. It’s January 20.
“My name is miracle”says Carlos Alcaraz, laughing, half jokingly, half seriously, after the legendary Rod Laver pointed out that “barring a miracle” they could now put Novak Djokovic’s name on the trophy. It’s January 22.
EOn January 24, Alcaraz comes face to face with reality. Neither final against Djokovic nor miracle nor thinking about distant records. “I don’t know what happened to me”says the Murcian after losing 6-1, 6-3, 6-7 (2-7) and 6-4 with Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. “If I want to do great things, if I want to win more Grand Slams, I have to improve these things”.
(…)
This excessive ambition
For the women, the money and the spotlights
It’s taking my life
Little by little by little by little
change women, pasta and spotlights from the letter of A Poison by C Tangana for Grand Slam, records and titles and it could be a good definition of what is happening to Carlos Alcaraz. At 20 years old, the Murcian has already achieved much more than the vast majority of professional tennis players in history: he has won two Grand Slams, he has reached number one in the ATP ranking – the youngest to be so -, he has He has won titles on dirt, hard and grass and has broken many precocity records. If he retired right now, he would already be among the 30 or 35 best of all time.
It’s worth remembering those things. That Alcaraz is 20 years old and that reaching the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam is a more than worthy result. Only the best eight arrive and you have to win four best-of-five-set matches first. But Carlitos has established a scale in which a few quarters is almost the same as nothing. He has tennis for much more, we all know it, he knows it and his team knows it.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, his coach, said at the end of 2023 in Cope that he was not satisfied with repeating 2023. Remember: titles at Wimbledon, Indian Wells, Madrid, Barcelona, Queen’s and Buenos Aires, in addition to semifinals at Roland Garros and US Open. “I don’t like tying the same year. I don’t like to settle. I know he also wants more,” said Ferrero.
Alcaraz has never hidden his ambition: he wants to fight to be the best player ever, sit at the table with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. However,shout it from the four winds it may not be the best strategy. Those I want to beat Djokovic’s records or I want to be one of the best in history are stones that accumulate in the backpack. Little by little by little by little, that Puchito sings.
And that weight shows. Many times it ties you to the ground and doesn’t let you fly. Because with those expectations that he generates, every defeat, every setback, is looked at with a magnifying glass. The best in history lose, but they lose little. And when they lose, the murmurs begin.
“I am not afraid to express what I want to achieve, what I want to achieve. I have always said that you have to dream big. I am not afraid to openly say what my dreams are., my goals,” Alcaraz insisted these days. “There may be people who like it and others who don’t like it. One of the things I have learned is that I can’t please everyone. Whatever you say, whatever you do, there will always be people who like it more and others who like it less.. We are one way. As you have seen, I am ambitious and I am not afraid to say what I want to achieve or my goals.”
(…)
It is a cruel and violent poison
What are you feeding?
What’s going to make me kill myself?
While everyone is still there looking
To become one of the best in history you need two things: having the weapons and believing in it. Alcaraz has the tennis – “People have never seen the tennis that Alcaraz plays,” Mats Wilander told Relevo in Melbourne – and they believe it. Now he has to walk the long, very long road towards that dream. Little by little by little by little. Slowly and with good writing. And the less weight you carry in your backpack, the less poison, the better.
Nacho Encabo is a sports editor at Relevo, a specialist in tennis and the Olympic Games. Born in Madrid, he studied Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University and began as an intern in the sports section of El Mundo in 2011. Knowing German shortly after opened the doors of the dpa agency, where he worked as a special envoy to the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, the 2016 Euro Cup in France and the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In addition, adding Relay and the rest of his career, he has covered the four tennis Grand Slams, the Davis Cup , athletics world championships, Formula 1 Grand Prix and countless LaLiga and Champions League matches. He has also worked as a reporter at El Independiente and traveled to the Tokyo Olympics on the Spanish Olympic Committee team. …
2024-01-26 16:29:28
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