Alcaraz: “I have to improve”

Carlos Alcaraz He recognized that he has things to improve on, such as the fall he suffered in the second set of the match against the Canadian. Denis Shapovalov, something happened to him in front of the Japanese taro daniel when it costs him a set.

“I have to improve, everything can always be done better,” he said when asked about that bump in his game. “It’s one of the things I have to do better in the next rounds, because in a Grand Slam it takes time,” he said.

Alcaraz He realized that this situation was about to cost him another set, something that would extend his time on the court to a night shift.

“In a Grand Slam, the less time you spend on the court, the better. You save energy and strength and more in a night shift, which is better to finish as soon as possible so as not to sleep too late. I’m happy I won in three sets when I was broken,” he said.

The Spaniard identified his rival in the round of 16, the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, a year older but he considers her “friend”.

“We have shared many tournaments as children, we know each other well off the track, although we don’t have much time to see each other because in tournaments we go our own way,” he said.

“It will be a challenge for me, he plays very well, he is beating big rivals. He has a lot of talent,” he said.

He recalled that he lost to him in the only duel between the two, which took place last year in the final in Hamburg, and assured that he was waiting “impatiently” to face him again. “It’s going to be a game with a lot of punches, it’s going to be exciting.”

Alcaraz made sure that Musetti was part of the generation that joined him, also Italian Jannik Sinner or the danish Holger Runeis set to dominate tennis for years to come and create a rivalry that, like Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, forces them to raise the bar.

“The one I’ve played the most with is Sinner and we both think he puts so much mental, physical and tennis demand on us that it makes us grow,” he said.