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- Alcaraz’s capriciousness – a drop-shot, a serve-and-volley, a devilish top-spin lob, and the rest – is why he has won a Grand Slam on every surface at the age of 21. It is why he is one win away from completing the notoriously difficult double-act of winning at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year.
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Apr 18, 2023 · In playing style, Alcaraz is actually a frightening combination of men’s tennis’ “Big 3”: The fight and tenacity (and prowess on clay) of Nadal; the speed and consistency of Novak Djokovic; and the fierce offense-to-defense fire-power of Roger Federer.
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Aug 5, 2023 · Alcaraz’s thrilling five-set victory over Novak Djokovic in the championship match of the grass-court major is a match that will be remembered for years to come. Nearly one month later, the magnitude of his win has still not completely set in.
Jul 14, 2024 · Alcaraz’s capriciousness – a drop-shot, a serve-and-volley, a devilish top-spin lob, and the rest – is why he has won a Grand Slam on every surface at the age of 21. It is why he is one win away...
Sep 12, 2022 · What Makes Carlos Alcaraz So Good. The nineteen-year-old, who just won the U.S. Open and became the No. 1 men’s player in the world, has a whole host of skills. But his speed is essential,...
- Alcaraz The Fastest Man to World No 1
- First ATP Tour Match: February 2020, Rio de Janeiro
- Covid Break May Have Helped Alcaraz
- Wins First Title in Umag, 2021
- The Ferrero Effect: Talent, Experience and Calmness Combined
- Us Open 2021: The Big Breakthrough
- Learning Experience in Paris, Then Wins Next Gen Finals
- Wins Rio For Second Career Title
- Wins Madrid, Beating Nadal, Djokovic, Zverev Back to Back
- Favourite For The French Open
Alcaraz is not the youngest man to win a slam title, however. In fact, he only just squeezes into the top 10. Michael Chang, who was 17 years and three months old when he won the French Open in 1989, tops a list, which includes Boris Becker (twice), Mats Wilander (twice), Bjorn Borg (twice), Nadal and Pete Sampras. Chang is the only one of them not...
Alcaraz had won three straight ITF titles when he arrived in Rio de Janeiro in February 2020. He had signalled his talent the previous year when he beat Jannik Sinner in a Challenger in 2019, aged 15, so perhaps it was no surprise that he should hit the ground running on the ATP Tour. His first-round opponent was Albert Ramos-Vinolas, then ranked N...
Alcaraz lost to Federico Coria, then ranked No 116in the next round but with Indian Wells and Miami around the corner, he seemed ready to break through, even then. That was when the Covid-19 pandemic struck and the tennis Tour stopped for five months. It’s amazing to think that he might have hit the top even sooner, had the pandemic not struck. And...
Alcaraz served notice of his growing game when he qualified for the Australian Open in 2021 and made round two. He played Rafael Nadal for the first time in Madrid that yearand though he won just three games, he received some advice from Spain’s greatest ever player. “After the match, he wished me a good birthday,” he said. “He said to me, continue...
Juan Carlos Ferrero was a great player but he never gave the impression he might turn into a great coach. However, having set up his own academy, Ferrero found Alcaraz in 2018 and together the pair set about making history. It helped that former world No 1 Ferrero (in 2003) still hit the ball great; at the Laver Cup in 2022, Federer revealed an ane...
For all his talent, Alcaraz had yet to do anything at a Grand Slam event. Nadal won the French Open at 19 so he was facing a race against time. He began the US Open by beating Cameron Norrie but it was in the third round, when he beat then world No 3 Stefanos Tsitsipasin a final-set tiebreak, that he announced himself to the world. Tsitsipas was st...
There was one moment of vulnerability, though, and it came at the Paris Rolex Masters in early November, when he lost 20 of the last 21 points in losing to Hugo Gaston. It was his first real experience of having everyone in a stadium against him and it was a learning experience. “My first time in this situation was not easy for me, it hurt me a lot...
Returning to Rio in 2022, he won his second career title, beating Diego Schwartzman in the final. A semi-final showing in Indian Wells, where he pushed Nadal to three sets, emphasised his improvement, but it was in Miami where he thrilled the crowds by winning the biggest title of his career, taking out Tsitsipas again along the way and Casper Ruud...
He served notice of his intent by winning Barcelona but it was Alcaraz’s efforts in Madrid which really made the world sit up and take notice. First he beat Nadal – on clay in Spain – almost sacrilege – then he took out Djokovic in a final-set tiebreak and finally, saw off Zverev in the final to collect another Masters 1000 title. Zverev was quick ...
Incredibly, Alcaraz went into the French Open as one of the favourites, despite the presence of Djokovic and Nadal, who had won the tournament 13 times. The pressure must have been immense and he almost lost in the second round to Ramos-Vinolas, only to somehow escape in five sets. When he lost in the quarter-finals to Zverev, he was disappointed b...
May 28, 2023 · Carlos Alcaraz is so good and so young, and wins so often, that his success has seemed predetermined.
Jun 15, 2024 · The win makes Alcaraz only the seventh male tennis player to have won a major title on all three surfaces – grass, hard and clay – and, at 21, he is the youngest player by more than a year to...
