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Lightning runs through tennis and no one stops it

2022-05-10T04:03:25.427Z


Four months have been enough for Carlos Alcaraz to establish himself as the tennis player of the present and exceed the gigantic expectations that he aroused


Lightning runs through tennis.

His name is Alcaraz and there is no way to stop him.

The signs have been there for a long time.

Carlos Alcaraz, or preferably Carlitos, as has been known in recent days, belonged to the cast of IMG since he was a child, a North American giant in the representation of athletes that has always paid very special attention to tennis.

At IMG they observed in the kid the qualities that distinguish the very good from the good.

These companies do not deal with the currents.

Overcome the long period of training that goes through childhood, adolescence and the first dawn of maturity, Carlos Alcaraz has overflowed the gigantic expectations that he aroused.

Four months have been enough for him to establish himself as the tennis player of the present, probably the one of the future and the apparent successor of Nadal, Djokovic and Federer.

He warned last year at the US Open, he gave Berrettini a good hot flash at the last Australian Open and since then he hasn't stopped.

Nobody has won more titles than Alcaraz this year, nor can anyone boast a comparable number of victims, from the legendary (Nadal and Djokovic) to the famous Next Gen (Zverev, Tsitsipas) who intend to end the empire of veterans.

In four months, the young Spanish tennis player has gone through the jungle process that defines the tennis season.

He was accredited in the austral summer of Melbourne, he won his first tournament in Rio de Janeiro, he reached the semifinals in the stormy Indian Wells, where he lost the semifinal with Nadal in the middle of a gale, he won his first Masters 1,000 on the fast track of the wet Miami, repeated victory on the clay of Barcelona and has prevailed in Madrid, where the height of the city (650 meters) establishes a very particular bounce to the ball.

Except on the grass court, a passage that is reserved for Wimbledon, Carlos Alcaraz has completed in four months the most intensive of learning: different surfaces, different geographical and weather conditions, the best range of rivals and a formidable haul of victories, some of them in

tie breaks

against the usual winners in this kind of formula.

Physique is decisive in the big four (Australia, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the United States), which are played to the best of five sets.

An engine with a displacement that is not needed in the rest of the calendar is needed.

Everything indicates that Alcaraz is prepared for the marathons to come.

His match with Djokovic lasted more than three hours.

In Barcelona he sweated blood and needed three hours to beat the tough De Miñaur.

That same day he beat the Spanish Carreño in the final.

Alcaraz encouraged curiosity when he began to dispute.

He was the new kid, barely known.

He now he faces fierce scrutiny.

He is no longer the newcomer who draws sympathy in his victories.

His position has been reversed.

Alcaraz is the man to beat on the circuit, as much as Nadal or Djokovic.

He has to internalize and digest that situation with just turned 19 years old.

In his favor he has all the arguments that he has displayed in recent weeks.

He is a very complete player.

He has all the shots, the mental toughness to emerge the winner from intricate situations, a tactical wisdom uncommon in such young players, a competitive appetite reminiscent of Nadal and a tennis that disdains robotics.

The public clings to that creative part, which, for example, has rescued his left, to celebrate him on the slopes and feel that the most indecipherable of mysteries floats: the power of charisma.

That blow, which cannot be taught in the academies, is also enjoyed by Alcaraz.

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