Carlos Alcaraz already flutters over the Queen’s lawn, releasing the first rackets and maneuvering on those two wheels that do not understand surfaces. It matters little that it is hard, earth or grass; The same, surely, if it were gravel, carpet or even ice. It doesn’t matter. The Murcian has been demonstrating his adaptability and, despite the fact that just over a week he was rallying and, unforgettable about that historic June 8, he demonstrates his mastery for the transition again. Input, a triumph against Adam Walton: 6-4 and 7-6 (4), in 1h 42m. Again the green and again Queen’s, the same starting point chosen the last two seasons and where he already registered his name in El Palmarés.
It was two years ago, in the prelude to his first success in Wimbledon. He then exhibited his presentation card and caught his first instinct -based grass title. The line was twisted in the eighths, but the outcome of the tour was equally high. To these reflexes, that dynamism and those shots that come as standard added the internalization of a series of elementary foundations that profile a total competitor, capable of accelerating and naturalizing the jump from one land to another. As soon as he is sliding and machining from the background in Paris as taking the short step, flexing the knee and with decision the London network.
Only three training sessions have been enough to rekindle the senses, reamged the support and solve this worked premiere, in which he finally met the Walton repeat (26 years and 85º of the world), for the latest leave of the Malaga. “There is little time to prepare this, but we take it as an adaptation. The more games we win here, the better. Carlos likes this surface a lot,” “I am ready and eager, so I come back with more energy. I left, but only one night because,” added the tennis player upon his arrival at the tournament, after passing through Ibiza.
There, between saltpeter, sun, friends and reggaeton, becoming the island scale already in tradition, Alcaraz enjoyed that mental parenthesis that points out as “essential” and recharged the batteries for this new assault in which it starts again as the main reference. Because, beyond the oscillation and surprises so typical of the grass, where the matches rarely do not hide the occasional trap, he is again the wheel to follow and the one that in principle should mark the step during the next weeks. More than reviewable records: 24 victories so far, for only three losses between Wimbledon and Queen’s.
With Wimbledon in sight, as of the 30th, Spanish is the maximum certainty in a stage in which Novak Djokovic has lost strength, although the Serbian warns in green the best opportunity from here at the end of the season; It will continue carefully and, two left -handed left over and whose pattern adapts to the particular registration of the grass; Alexander Zverev does not end up refining this year, at whose service the rest of the sections do not accompany him; And, without ruling out the irruption of the bomber on duty, it remains to be checked what is the reaction of Jannik Sinner after the mood blow embedded in the Roland Garros final, where he had three game balls.
“I do not consider that this victory gives me advantage over him at a mental level; in fact, I think he will return stronger than ever. I know that he is excited about winning Wimbledon and that he can play very well here, so he is a firm candidate,” he grants that of El Palmar, than in the long set before Walton reappeared in his way: making the difficult thing easy. Meritoria replica of the Australian, in the end inclined to the 34 winning shots, the 12 successes (in 15 increases) to the network and reliability with the Alcaraz serve, which signed a 68% effectiveness and aborted two set options for its rival in the second partial; the only two that the oceanic ordered. In Thursday’s eighth, he will collide with Jordan Thompson or Jaume Munar.
