Carlos Alcaraz has collected his National Sports Award and He has taken the opportunity to leave the door open to his dream: playing doubles with Rafa Nadal at the Paris Olympic Games. Although he has not hidden that he is concerned about the state of health of the manacorí who is not in Monte Carlo: “At the moment I don’t know anything about his condition, how he is. Obviously, as a Spaniard and a tennis follower, I am worried“, he said when asked. A doubt that came accompanied by a prediction: “Let’s see how he and I get there, in the end there are still four months left. Anything can happen, but I hope it can happen“.
Clay court season starts
He doesn’t hide it. Carlos Alcaraz arrives at the clay court season “with great desire and enthusiasm“after winning in Indian Wells and the role he played in Miami where you could see a great Alcaraz”both on a tennis and emotional level“. That is why he faces his next challenge, Monte Carlo, with positivity. Then he will go through the Godó in Barcelona, the Mutua Madrid Open, Rome and Roland Garrós, where he has high hopes.
“Roland Garros is a super special tournament for the Spanish because of what Rafa has achieved and for me it would be incredible to be able to win it, even once… let’s try it“, he said about his next participation in Paris. And he didn’t stop there: “I have been growing. Two years ago, quarters; last year, semis; Now we have this, the final or champion. Let’s try“.
Historical figures and the birth of an Alcaraz-Sinner rivalry
Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Three tennis players who have been and continue to be a legend in tennis as they have been the first to reach or surpass 20 Grand Slams throughout their career. “We all know about the rivalry that Roger, Novak and Rafa have had, that thanks to the fact that some have won some tournaments, others others, they have been improving,” he said about that rivalry. Some words that he has described as “Something out of the ordinary“and notes:”I have always said that my goal is to try to reach them, to try to reach those numbers because you have to dream big.“.
That is why the best way to achieve it is the rivalry that begins to emerge with Jannik Sinner: “I hope I can have that nice rivalry with Jannik, that I improve based on him, also on that he pressure me to give my 100%. Hopefully within the next ten years I can have that rivalry with him,” said Alcaraz. A goal, to achieve those numbers, which he still sees as “very, very distant.”
The path to reach the Big3
And to start or continue his path to achieve it, we return to the clay court season where, a priori, Djokovic arrives in less shape than Alcaraz or Sinner, but the Murcian has stopped speculation in its tracks: “Maybe Djokovic is a little less fit, but in the end we are talking about Novak, who at any moment can give his 100% and we all know what he is like.“, he claimed.
A moment before talking about those opinions that advise the tennis player to be “a little more boring” in order to be an even better tennis player: “In the end I think they are also right. There is a phrase that a tennis great told me, one of the tennis legends, who Defenses or knowing how to defend win titles and attack wins fans. Being boring, in quotes, let’s say, is what also makes you rise, but for now my style is what it is“, he concludes, defending his way of playing that has already led him to be number 1 in the world.
2024-04-04 14:34:36
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