Carlos Alcaraz continues flying in Miami. The Spaniard has surpassed his rivals in the first two matches of the second Masters 1,000 on American soil and Lorenzo Musetti is already waiting for him in the round of 16 of a tournament that the Spaniard has between his eyebrows to see. complete the ‘Double Sunshine’ (winning Indian Wells and Miami), something that only 11 tennis players in history have achieved.
To achieve this, he has a complicated draw and, above all, a rival on the horizon with whom he would meet in the final of the Florida tournament. This is Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis player who has managed to sneak between the Spaniard and Djokovic in the shortlist of favorites in all the tournaments. A rival that appears on Alcaraz’s horizon as the next great dominator of world tennis and with whom he is already united by a great rivalry.
A challenge on the court reminiscent of the one that Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer once had and that, as Alcaraz himself has commented, serves as fuel to continue improving and evolving his game. “Rafa and Federer have had a very beautiful and demanding rivalry at the same time. What I have learned from this rivalry is that you can never stay behind, nor give up, nor settle. It doesn’t matter if you think you are at your highest level, that you can’t give more, you can always give a little more. “That’s what they’ve shown for so many years that they’ve been up there.”
“Rafa and Federer have had a very beautiful and demanding rivalry at the same time. What I have learned from this rivalry is that you can never stay behind, nor give up, nor settle.”
Carlos Alcaraz
“Every time one lost against the other, they tried to be better to win the next time. And they have done it for a long time, which is something incredible and worth admiring. I hope I can have a rivalry like this. “Right now, the way people see it, it could be with Jannik.”pointed out the Spaniard about his rivalry with a Sinner who does not lose face to the challenge.
Sinner and Alcaraz are the leaders of a new generation in which names such as Holger Rune and Lorenzo Musetti also appear. In addition to being good friends, the Italian and the Spanish respect each other enormously on and off the track. Sinner and Alcaraz have already met eight times, with four victories for each, after Alcaraz leveled their duels with his victory in Indian Wells.
Born in 2003 and 2001, respectively, The Spanish and the Italian are the great contenders to pick up the baton of the Big 3. They are followed by other names such as Holger Rune, Lorenzo Musetti, Arthur Fils or Luca Van Assche, but so far the only two tennis players who have been able to hit the board have been Alcaraz and Sinner. The statistics at the moment smile on the Murcian, who with two fewer years in the DNI has won more titles, more Grand Slams, has had a better ranking and has a better win-loss percentage.
Gain. That is what Alcaraz wants to continue doing and to achieve this, as he demonstrated against Monfils, he leaves nothing on the court. Wanting to put on a show at every point, but above all wanting to improve his game. That is the objective that leads him to fight for each ball. “It’s crazy,” said the French player while looking at his coach who responded with a forceful “it’s everywhere.”. An omnipresence that explains Alcaraz’s desire to continue fighting with Sinner and get a little closer to Nadal and Federer.
2024-03-26 11:38:20
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