All about in Wimbledon, where all the protagonists and two of them already parade at a very different rhythm: Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and then, all the others, with Novak Djokovic as the last vestige of the golden age. “I still don’t know what I am capable of, but I aspire to reach that level. What these two uncles are doing is marking the way and changing the game,” says Jack Draper, who once launched the Italian and the Spanish, who squeeze more and more. Neither give up or look back, but quite the opposite; They continue to uncheck and put more and more land involved.
It was proven Paris, Marco two weeks ago of a final for the memory, and is ready to do so now London, where everything is more unpredictable and less controllable, despite the fact that this edition present to a dominator: Alcaraz is seen again in the relaxed and concentrated conferences room, after an almost perfect exercise on the clay and a transition to be asked in a mouth. “I want to win the tournament, I really want to lift the trophy again. I have tried to get here as much as possible and, obviously, now I feel a lot of confidence,” the Spanish tennis player, champion of the last two editions of the British great editions, introduces with a smile.
The great dynamic with which it lands in the tournament is added to the condition. Since April, just a defeat and one joy after another. He crowned in Roland Garros and links 18 victories. Everyone points to him. “In grass you have a better time than anywhere,” Mats Wilander slides. And he continues to enjoy, but, yes, with the idea of continuing to compete exactly under the same parameters of this spring; That is, fun, of course, but without moving away from that perfected and more serious pattern, wrapped in concentration, rigor in execution and a complete briefcase of solutions that allows you to escape even the most unsuspected situations. See the final of Paris.
Tremendous the impact, admits Djokovic. “I was in my house with my wife and she wanted to see the final, but I was not going to eat, but in the end we ended up part of the game and, really, I would say that it is one of the most historical we have seen. The level that both showed was simply incredible,” he said the Serbian, now rebuild two for two series force and rendered to Alcaraz’s tennis, who after triumphing for the second time in Queen. for playing golf the next day with Andy Murray. He will debut on Monday (14.30, Movistar+), with which he embraced these days in the training zone.
2019 en Roehampton
“Fabio [de 38 años y 130º del mundo] He is an incredible player, with a lot of tour in our sport and great tournaments, with great games. We get along very well out of the track and I think it will be a beautiful game. It is very talented, so we are going to be concentrated because the first rounds can be a bit trap, ”says El Palmar, whose documentary – has given rise to a debate that has been softening as he has swelling his record in the last dates. Does Alcaraz feel that he must demonstrate things constantly, that he must pay that toll because of the fact of having chosen a different path?
“I don’t have to demonstrate anything, that’s the main thing. I don’t have to show anything to anyone. In the end, it’s my life and I carry it in the way I think it’s correct, as I would like. For me, that’s the key,” he replies. “Not thinking about what people say, not thinking about the expectations that people have about me, but concentrating only on what really feels good to me, concentrating on what I really need and follow him a hundred percent. That is the best way to demonstrate things, following what I feel yourself and what I like,” expands the number two, supported by his narrowest circle to overcome the most difficult moments.
Because today savors the success and jacket in favor, but on other dates the situation was different. In March, he received “a lot of hate” for having chosen the beach of Cancun, instead of the training track of Murcia, to try to overcome the bad drink in the American tour. Then, as always, he took refuge in his friends and family, with whom he will share these days in the SW19 district of London. Here, says the athlete, he feels that his tennis charges his maximum expression. And it went back to 2019, the first time he stepped on the grass to compete. It was in Roehampton, in the context of a tournament like Junior. It did not go wrong, but in the end he had to leave.
“I surprised myself because I played good games. I injured the abdominal, but it was fine. In grass, everything is different, it is not easy to play; it is not easy to move and the blows are different,” he says, while sliding that it is about his favorite surface, or at least the one that most beautifies his sport. “The most beautiful tennis we can see is about grass. The style is very beautiful, the sound … when you manage to adapt, you feel like you are flying. I do very well because I like to hit slices [cortados], dropshots [dejadas]go to the network all the time, be aggressive … ”, Matizes the Spanish, who warns: the appetite remains intact, has come in search of the triplet.
