Carlos Alcaraz dreams of playing doubles with Rafael Nadal at the next Olympic Games

While the Monte-Carlo tournament is the only Masters 1000 where Carlos Alcaraz has never managed to win a match (beaten from the start by Sebastian Korda in 2022[7-66-76-3)forhisonlyparticipation)thenowworldnumber3behindNovakDjokovic(n°1)andJannikSinner(n°2)saidonSaturdayhewasrathercalmattheideaof​​liningupinoneofthetournamentsthathewatchedthemosttelevisionwhenhewasachild[7-66-76-3)poursaseuleparticipation)ledésormaisnuméro3mondialderrièreNovakDjokovic(n°1)etJannikSinner(n°2)s’estditsamediplutôtsereinàl’idéedes’alignerdansundestournoisqu’ilaleplusregardésàlatélévisionquandilétaitenfant

Asked whether or not he would benefit from playing on clay the next time he faces Sinner, the 20-year-old Spaniard stressed that “anyway, Jannik is fantastic on all courts; so I think that every time we compete, actually, the surface doesn’t matter. Frankly, facing him, I don’t know if the land would favor me or not. »

While waiting for this reunion, which could only exist in the final, this week, in Monte-Carlo, the winner of the last Wimbledon had a word for his compatriot Rafael Nadal, whose prolonged absence on the circuit he regrets and with whom he always imagines an XXL project: “I hope to play the doubles at the Paris Olympic Games with “Rafa”, it would be a dream, it would be great. But it’s four months from now, and anything can happen…”