Monday, June 30, 2025, 01:55
«What I want to see in the future is that I can sit at the table of the greats. I have to continue putting goals. I have to keep dreaming ». With that spirit, Carlos Alcaraz faces since Monday the challenge of adding another historical milestone to his record. To win in Wimbledon for the third consecutive year would link it to a legendary page of the tennis in which only the Swedish Bjorn Borg and the German Steffi Graff, winners of three Roland Garros and three Wimbledon in a consecutive way in the modern era are only. At the moment, he is already one of the six men who has won in the Parisian tournament and in the London the same year, together with Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
In the bets, nobody forgets that the young Spanish, 22 years old and second in the world, accumulates a streak of 18 consecutive victories, which means the longest of his career. On the way to a legendary feat, enemies of height will meet again, with aspirations to demonstrate that they can also reach glory. On that way, of course, Jannik Sinner, number one in the world and with which he has just starred in the amazing Parisian land that has been praised by the whole world of tennis, will find of course. Those five sets, those 5 hours and 29 minutes of play – the longest in history in the French capital -, that comeback of two sets and the overcoming of three game balls in the third manga can have a negative effect on Italian, which has been unable to bend the Murcian in the last confrontations. But they may also have mentalized to think that he only lacked a blow to stop the Alcaraz legend. That he had everything in favor, but he could the pressure, while the Spanish endured the chaparrón and revive.
Nobody will be able to eliminate the final triumph to Novak Djokovic, anxious to raise their triumph streak in the Grand Slam tournaments at 25 titles. It will not be an easy tournament for Alcaraz, which in Paris found a highway to reach the final. But, for the moment, his prompt adaptation to the grass after the slow land of Roland Garros, which has allowed him to overcome Queen’s for the second consecutive year, may be scared more and impose respect for his adversaries. He is the owner of the crown of the oldest tournament in the world.
Sinner will want to claim as number one and try to forget the image of the man who lost three game balls and who was traced two sleeves. The pressure will be more with him than with Alcaraz, who usually says that every time his only goal enters the track is to win, that he is not there to be second. The Italian also comes from being eliminated in the first round of the Halle Tournament, in Germany, but no one doubts his talent and his champion potential.
Eternal and memorable
The most important duel of current tennis is served. It will not be a fight for the number one of the ranking because although Alcaraz wins the points will not reach him to overcome the Italian. It is a fight between the two new world tennis roosters. Two tennis players who have entered the clues to overcome challenges, reach glory and star in the best games, those in which life seems to them, those with which the public and extenders such as Roger Federer himself, recognizing that what they just saw is the triumph of tennis. Two gladiators who seem to have nothing to envy to those games of Federer and Nadal, or Nadal and Djokovic. Also eternal and memorable.
For the amateur, two weeks of tennis arrive in the cathedral of this sport in which Alcaraz can write a page for the legend. Wimbledon is a tournament that always program the current champion to release the central track. The Murcia, therefore, will open the tournament – will face Fognini on Monday – and the calendar that will continue during the first week will be playing Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Sinner, meanwhile, will debut on Tuesday.
The tournament will distribute 53.5 million pounds in prizes after the increase of 8.2% compared to last year. The champions, both in the male and female team, will take 3 million pounds sterling each, while the finalists will pocket 1.5 million. The great favorite in the women’s tournament is Aryna Sabalenka, the world number one.
