Carlos Alcaraz will play this Sunday, at 3 pm, against Novak Djokovic in his first Wimbledon final, second in the Grand Slam after winning the US Open 2022. The 20-year-old from Murcia will face a legend of the ‘Big Three ‘ is contesting his ninth final in the ‘Cathedral’ of world tennis, the 35th in one of the four ‘major’ events.
Most recently was the antecedent of the Roland Garros semifinals, when the Spaniard collapsed due to the tension of the moment and the demand he imposed. Novak Djokovic in the fight. In equal rows, Alcaraz began to show signs of being a victim of cramps. He said his whole body was blocked, and he lost 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-1.
It was a painful experience but Carlos Alcaraz and his team, led by the coach Juan Carlos Ferrerothey want to turn it into an important stimulus and learning in preparation for the new challenge against the seven-time Wimbledon champion.
The mental issue, the Paris problem, focused the attention of the tennis player from El Palmar. “Physically I will do the same thing I do before every game. But mentally, yes, trying to be more calm. Some mental exercises, I don’t know which, but I will do those practice trying to forget that this is a final match Djokovic“.
The psychologist also enters the improvement formula, Isabel Balaguer, far. “I have been working since the beginning of 2020. He has helped me a lot and I will talk to him about how to prepare for this game, this important moment for me, and it will not be easy.”
It is not a question of denying the nerves, but how to control them. His coach and former No. 1 and Grand Slam champion Juan Carlos Ferrero stressing that “Dokovic probably has more favoritism here and that’s in his favor Carlos to be more calm. But you have to manage well that Carlos plays calmly, fluently, as in the whole tournament, except for Rune, who came out a little more tense. You need to consider the game from possible tension and nerves. You don’t go into the Wimbledon final very relaxed.”
The man from Ontinyent has the highest complicity of his pupil, in whom he has blind faith. “I think that I transmit more to him about situations that can happen on the court, about how to play him also, but above all about what he can feel when he entered there in a final, and what moments he can feel a little more pressure. Or what do the day before to be calmer. I think I help him with that”.
They don’t want to deviate from a pattern that works well. “I don’t think you need to create different routines. A bit of a gym, be fresh for the final, try to separate yourself a little from the phone, from everything that comes at you. And play, try to enjoy what you do well when you develop all your tennis. And fight the match to the death”, ie ferrero.
You mentioned a major thing in everyone’s life, especially the generation of Alcaraz. The mobile. The team recommended that the Murcian let him rest, that he isolate himself from social networks. “I don’t know if we’ll get it because it’s a bit of a lost battle, but I advised him to be a little more isolated from what is said about the game. All the talk and the possibilities, all of that indirectly not very helpful.”
It is an eternal battle of ferrero, who laughs when he approaches him because he knows that Carlitos really likes to socialize with people. And he also does not want to restrict a “happy person who likes to joke”, the Murcian tennis player says about himself.
The technician didn’t forget the strategy either, but he saved that artillery Alcaraz will try to deploy against Djokovic. “Tennis is mental and it’s a game. It’s everything. You have to prepare well mentally, but you have to play tennis,” recalled Ferrero.
Alcaraz, An exceptional student, he will do everything to make his day at Wimbledon, becoming the fifth Spanish tennis player to win the All England Club center, the same one where Djokovic has not lost in ten years, where he won seven. titles of his 23 Grand Slam.
But, suggestive ferrero, “he is a player with two arms and two legs, like us”. And he recommends “forgetting history, numbers, and everything else because if we carry all those backpacks on our back it’s very complicated. We make the giant bigger.” The Serbian giant.
Source: La Verdad
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