Roland Garros dawns on Wednesday still dazzled by the exhibition of the previous night. “Masterclass”, The title The dailyreferring to that delicious hour and a half that the tennis of Carlos Alcaraz held. An Alcaraz – Friday in front of the Italian Lorenzo Musetti – and that “is maturing because it is law of life,” transmits its coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, during an encounter with the special envoys. The satisfied coach speaks of how things are dating Murcia, the main candidate in this tournament in which he has worn his best argument because the fantasy has incorporated a greater sense of control and wealth of solutions.
But, even so, it has not yet touched the roof. That says Ferrero. “I want to leave a clear thing. Carlos has the level of yesterday, which happens that it is very difficult to capture it in each game. We know that when he plays forward, when he plays brave, when he plays without fears, he is a player with a potential that I think we have not seen it yet,” he answers to approach this newspaper. Is the version of this tour and in recent days the closest to the ideal he can have in mind? Alcaraz spoke before leaving the facilities on the night of “work”, around which he always articulates his speech. And maybe there can be the key: the perfect balance.
“But you also have to take into account the pressures, tensions, fears, difficulties, other players, those tournaments that you want to win more than others … and all those things also play,” he continues. “We are clear that when Carlos plays forward without pressure, it is really an out of series. But the work is there and hopefully he can always play at this level, although it will not always be like that, it is not easy,” the Valencian mitigates, who perceives an evolution of his player when it came to and considers that it was “a little more emotional.” “Now,” concrete, “still has a pamket,” but in general, “handle these setbacks on the track much better.”
For the coach, champion in 2003, background mental work is beginning to take effect and everything responds to the natural process of tennis player. “You have to work on the issue of constancy, and in that we are,” he says. “What happens is that by hitting the ball so strong, it is difficult to maintain, because yesterday it entered practically everything, but other days will have some failure and it will go to the 30 united errors and it will not be so brilliant, but the attempt is there. We want to take that step forward, even on the ground, but we must also take into account the profile of the rival that you have in front and maybe you should not be so direct,”
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Alcaraz’s recital against Tommy Paul greatly impacted, but also did his ability to sustain himself and, who squeezed him strongly in the two previous stations. As the ramps have been pronounced, that of El Palmar (22 years old) has multiplied their benefits and sharpening the competitive instinct, sign of greatness and also, of change. “Carlos is on that path to look more at him, and not so much in others. Of really looking for his maximum level. Perfection? I think that cannot be said, because there is no one perfect, but it is true that he approaches a quite a lot, say, little seen in the circuit,” he observes.
At that moment, Ferrero comes automatically a name, that of Sinner, which they logically follow closely. The two, with permission of the Serbian Novak Djokovic, and then the rest. “It is true that when Jannik also plays at a stratospheric level of constancy, which has been showing, because it is also really high,” he clarifies. And that, in parallel, is food for your player. Tennis and rivalries. “Carlos sees it and comes up, and tries to climb his own,” he continues; “I think the two feed up, especially when they face each other. It is good that Jannik is playing like this because it makes others have to raise the level, not just Carlos.”
The Arreón that has given withoutner in the last rounds only stimulates the Murcian, who has always needed external incentives so as not to fall into compliance. “Two years ago we already said that if Jannik continued like this, he would be able to be number one and in the end it has been., And I think that helps Carlos to continue working daily hard to be at the level and have the possibilities of being able to beat him when he plays against him,” he grants, while the facts corroborate: 7-4 and 2-1 in the late Spanish. In any case, San Cándido has been recovering rhythm and at any time can exponentially shoot his game.
Musetti’s regularity
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Alcaraz said that its performance can mean a reminder for others of the level that it can reach. Ferrero, however, affects the message of inside doors: first oneself and its circumstances.
“He must have the confidence that when he fights one hundred percent and gives his maximum intensity, others can be done very uphill,” he says, “and we insist a lot on that, that he looks a lot at himself, in doing his things well.”
Regarding Musetti, who is completing a great tour – final in Montecarlo and the semifinals in Madrid, Rome and, for the moment, Roland Garros – and that for the first time is among the best ten, Ferrero highlights the “trust” of the Italian; However, it emphasizes again that they must concentrate on “the weapons of Carlos”, “the vellicad, the intensity and the constancy.”
Musetti is the fifth player who, as of 1990, has managed to reach the penultimate round of the most important tournaments of the tour; Previously Rafael Nadal (2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2019), Novak Djokovic (2008), Andy Murray (2016) and ultimately Alexander Zverev (2022).
