They treat him like a child. They take care of Carlos Alcaraz, they pamper him and, from time to time, they even scold him, when he is at his parents’ house in Murcia, Spain. We already know that he is one of the best tennis players in the world (he occupies the first place in the ATP ranking), also the recent Wimbledon champion, who is the player who is called to lead, as he already does, the generational change in world tennis. .
But above all things, Carlitos –the second of the four children of the marriage between Carlos Alcaraz and Virginia Garfia– is, at 20 years old, a young man that he takes to any part of the world where he plays the values that he was taught in his family, which has been a pillar in his sporting success and his way of being.
“I always tell him to remember his own. He is a noble boy, very good and he has always been very affectionate, very fond of being in his house, ”Virginia Garfia told Relevo, a Spanish web portal specialized in sports.
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Perhaps because of that nobility, that simplicity that his mother talks about and that he shows in each tournament, is that Carlos, who in September 2022 became the youngest tennis player in history to occupy the first place in the ATP ranking with 19 years, 4 months and 7 days, he has earned the fame of keeping an eternal smile, of being the new happy face of the once white sport.
a family heirloom
It was with that same joy that Carlitos started playing tennis in 2008, when he was five years old. He did it at the Real Sociedad Club de Camp de Murcia, where his father, who also spent a few years on the ATP professional circuit, was a coach.
Since then, the Spanish tennis player, who has won both Grand Slam tournament finals in his career (US Open 2022 and Wimbledon 2023), showed that he had a natural ability to play tennis because he exhibited good coordination. In addition to him, he had an absurd learning capacity that led him to quickly appropriate the movements that his father taught him.
a creative player
From the age of 15, when the Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero (current coach of Alcaraz), met Carlitos, he realized that he was a different boy, that he had the talent to be one of the best tennis players in the world.
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That is why he took him to his academy, in Alicante. It was there where Carlos perfected his shots, gained the agility of a cheetah that allows him to hit balls that any player would give up in matches, and built the character of an indomitable bull that led him to become, at the age of 20, the third youngest tennis player to win Wimbledon (he is surpassed by Boris Becker, who won it in 1985 at the age of 17, and Wilfred Baddeley, who won it in 1981 at the age of 19).
“I really enjoy how he plays, I love seeing him on the court. I always give him the freedom to be creative. That is why he fights, that he gives special and beautiful blows, ”Ferrero told the Spanish radio station SER. Those plays that Carlos usually does, which leave those who watch him on television with their mouths open and lead to the fact that the spectators who are on the slopes have no choice but to applaud and take their heads off, have meant that in the five years that he has been playing as a professional (he debuted in 2018), Alcaraz earns the respect of his rivals within the ATP circuit.
It has a little bit of everything
After beating Serbian Djokovic in the Wimbledon final, Alcaraz went up to the center court grandstand of the All Englad Lawn Tennis and Croquet club in London to celebrate with his people. He first hugged Juan Carlos Ferrero, who could not contain himself and cried with happiness. Then to his relatives, who formed a huddle, kissed him, enjoyed intimately, although in public, the epic that Carlitos achieved.
Later, when he was back on center court, Carlitos heard the compliments of Nole, who in short said that he was a perfect player. “He has the best of those three worlds (Nadal, Federer, Djokovic). He is technical like Roger, he has the competition mentality of a Spanish bull and the incredible ability to defend himself that we have seen in Rafa and a backhand that he can resemble mine and that was my forte for years, ”said the Serbian tennis player.
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Now Carlos Alcaraz, the young man who is cared for like a child at home, who has shown an absurd maturity for his age, who is currently the best tennis player in the world, will prepare to make his legend grow and be a protagonist in the Open of United States, which will be played between August 28 and September 10.
Iberian bull mentality
Carlos Alcaraz has always been compared to Rafael Nadal. And they have many things in common: they are both Spanish, they have powerful serving, speed and physical strength that impresses; but above all things, they have an indomitable mentality, which is what allows them not to let themselves fall in the face of adversity, but rather seems to be the gasoline that drives them. Maybe that’s why Carlitos ended up beating Djokovic in the Wimbledon final after losing the first set. The Murcian is called to replace Rafa in the coming years as the best Spaniard on the ATP circuit.
The young man surpassed the master
It sounds daring to say it, but Alcaraz, at his young age, has already surpassed the Swiss Roger Federer in one aspect, who for many is the best tennis player in history (we leave the debate open for readers). Carlitos, at 20, already has two Grand Slam titles and has not lost any of the finals he has played in the greats of tennis. The first title was achieved at the age of 19 at the 2022 United States Open. The second was the English slam that he won on Sunday; while Federer got his first major when he was 21 years old. Coincidentally it was two decades ago, when he won the Wimbledon title.
The new great rivalry
“Nole”, at 36, is – while Nadal returns to the circuit next year – the only active tennis player of the “Big Three”, made up of Djokovic, Rafa and Federer, who have dominated tennis in the last 20 years. For this reason, in recent months he has had a closed dispute with Alcaraz for keeping the first place in the ATP ranking. For this reason, after the Wimbledon final, he said that the public was facing the new great rivalry in tennis, at least while he is active, because he knows that when he retires, Carlitos will be the one who commands the save and will surely reach or exceed the record. of 23 Grand Slam titles that he shares with Nadal.
2.7
million euros pocketed Carlos Alcaraz for winning Wimbledon.
2023-07-18 04:01:01
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