“I have revised my goals for the rest of the season, so yes, try to win a Grand Slam or reach a semifinal or a final“
How do you recognize a future tennis player who will become a champion? Carlos Alcaraz is definitely one of them. Still 141st in the world at the beginning of 2021, the Spaniard, who turned 19 on May 3, emerges today in sixth place. The French public will have the opportunity to “to spy“the phenomenon, even claiming the title at Roland-Garros (May 22-June 5).
Just three months into the season, Alcaraz he had already achieved all the goals set in December 2021 with his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, former world number one and winner at Porte d’Auteuil in 2003. Enter the top 15? All done in late March. After lifting his first trophy in the summer of 2021 in Umag (Croatia), an ATP 250 tournament, he was aiming for the level just above (ATP 500). This was achieved in February in Rio (Brazil). “Later, we said to ourselves, well, the next goal is to try to win a Masters 1000,” he said once he completed this mission in Miami (Florida), which earned him the nickname of King of Spain. And then ? Only the last category remains. The Grand Slams.
He has to think about it this year. “I have revised my goals for the rest of the season, so yes, try to win a Grand Slam or reach a semifinal or a final“, replied to Le Monde, at the beginning of April in Monte-Carlo, the young man, who would almost apologize for this voracity, despite his carnivorous smile.
After the victories in Barcelona on April 24th and then a Madrida fortnight later, where he was the first to beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the same tournament on clay, he got the label of favorite in Paris: “I’m ready”.
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