The final month and a half has been very intense for Carlos Alcaraz, who has achieved excellent outcomes. The younger Spanish champion has received the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships, changing into the youngest participant ever to attain this feat.
The 21-year-old from Murcia tried to win a gold medal on the Paris Olympics, however his run got here to a halt within the remaining in opposition to an amazing Novak Djokovic. The 24-time Grand Slam champion confirmed his finest efficiency of the season in final Sunday’s remaining and has rightly achieved the final nice dream of his legendary profession.
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Carlitos performed an amazing match on the enduring Philippe Chatrier, however he paid the strain within the two tiebreaks and got here out of the court docket in tears of disappointment. In the course of the press convention, the four-time Grand Slam champion mentioned he’ll work exhausting to win the gold medal on the Los Angeles Olympics in 4 years.
The previous world number one has risen to a brand new stage within the final two months, successful the final two Majors and proving himself to be one of the best on the earth regardless of ATP primary being Jannik Sinner. The Italian has had some issues lately and needed to skip the Paris Olympics due to a tonsillitis.
After reaching the ultimate on the Paris Olympics, Carlos Alcaraz determined to skip the Montreal Masters 1000 (final 12 months he reached the quarterfinals in Toronto dropping to Tommy Paul). The younger Spaniard is anticipated to return to the court docket in Cincinnati, which he’ll use to organize for the US Open.
Alcaraz is resting
In the meantime Alcaraz has been photographed in Mallorca, the place he’s spending a couple of days of trip together with his brother Alvaro and a few buddies.
“Vocês não estão alucinando… Vencedor de Wimbledon, atleta dos Jogos Olímpicos e grande tenista Carlos Alcaraz veio mesmo passar a tarde no nosso próprio Restaurante Rocamar. 🎾”
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— Carlos Alcaraz Brasil (@carlosalcarazbr) August 7, 2024
The younger Spaniard was very disillusioned after dropping the ultimate of the Paris Olympics – during which he began favourite in opposition to Novak Djokovic – however then realized that he had achieved an enormous end result. “Reality be informed, after dropping, in the course of the on-court interviews, within the ceremony… It was solely once I had the medal hanging that I spotted it was a second to savor. I had an excellent event. Successful an Olympic medal could be very troublesome, and I’ve to understand that. The workforce additionally informed me that there are numerous Olympics, that there are numerous nice gamers with out a medal, so it is one thing now we have to be very pleased with” – Carlitos mentioned in the course of the press convention.
Alcaraz was inferior to Djokovic within the decisive moments: “They’re totally different situations, totally different surfaces, and it isn’t the identical taking part in individually as representing your nation within the Olympic Video games. It is a complete set of issues utterly totally different from what we had in Wimbledon in London. I go away content material, with my head held excessive for the match I performed, I fought till the tip. I attempted to search out options. It was a really tight match. In essential moments, I could not capitalize on the alternatives I had, and Novak performed at a really excessive stage.
Within the tiebreaks, within the break factors in opposition to me, he raised his stage once I could not. That is how tight matches are determined. I imagine I performed at a really excessive stage; now I have to study to be extra exact in these moments for the longer term. While you miss alternatives in opposition to a participant like Novak, it comes again to hang-out you.”
Carlitos have to be proud
On this second a part of 2024, the Spaniard will attempt to change into number one once more. Carlitos will defend extra factors than Jannik Sinner till the US Open, whereas the Italian could have extra factors to defend within the autumn. The exhausting court docket indoor is the floor on which Alcaraz struggles most, as proven by final 12 months’s outcomes.
The present quantity 3 on the earth was consoled by Novak on the finish of the Olympic remaining: “He’s having fun with his second and I couldn’t trade many phrases. On the web he informed me that I’ll win gold sooner or later and I’m going to work for it. My second will come. He deserves to dwell this second together with his household.
His tears point out that he was actually wanting ahead to it. It jogs my memory extra of the one I misplaced in Cincinnati, the place I had my probabilities and it was an amazing battle. All of the matches in opposition to him are nice battles and it’s a spectacle for extra individuals to observe tennis. These matches make you a greater participant and a greater individual. I’ll work with ambition to be higher than Djokovic.” The rivalry between Djokovic and Alcaraz could final for some time.
