/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/A4TPMJ6XLZFKJKT22IH2JWUN5M.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Alcaraz boy’s first idol … and it’s not Nadal")
Carlos Alcaraz is the man of the moment in world sport. To reach the elite he noticed many tennis players, but above all one. The number one of the ATP has never hidden his great devotion to Rafa Nadal. Murciano has only praise for the Majorcan as well as for his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero. However, when he was just twelve, he had already recognized that his great idol was Roger Federer. In fact, in his room he had the portrait of the Swiss tennis player hung every now and then.
One of Alcaraz’s turning points came in 2020 when he trained with Roger at Wimbledon. On that occasion, he recognized the nerves he had and that that session served as a lesson to keep improving. The Swiss marked a before and after in the younger generations together with Nadal, Djokovic. Federer’s legacy is spectacular with a total of 111 career titles: 20 Grand Slams, 6 ATP World Tour Finals, 28 ATP Masters 1,000, 24 ATP 500 and 25 ATP 250, plus gold at the Olympic Games, an ATP Masters 1.000, 3 ATP 500 and 3 ATP 250 obtained in double.
Ferrero, his other idol
Alcaraz relied on Juan Carlos Ferrero, the former world number one, to reach the top position in the ranking. Under his leadership, Carlos lives in the facility of the JC Ferrero Equelite Sport Academy, where he sleeps, trains and dreams big. Carlos Santos Bosque was the first coach who had: “he has all the credentials to be among the top 10 of the ATP. Carlos, from an early age, had different things. He had so much fun on the track that he made heaps of sand and when it came to playing he did it with his peers and older children and he was never nervous “.
What was achieved in The US Open confirms that Alcaraz is already much more than the sensation of the season. Since 2003 there have been 20 editions of the tournament, 5 have Federer, 4 Nadal, 3 Djokovic … this is where the Murcian is already slipped. His words after winning the first Grand Slam of his career reveal what he was like in the first big moment of his career: “I thought about throwing up and serving well, which is what Juanqui told me. It sounds easy, but it’s not. Mentally I felt good, and my heartbeat, but my legs weighed down a lot … “.
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