Carlos Alcaraz He is direct when he presents his wishes and goals. Sometimes his environment tries to suppress his natural euphoria, to change his public interventions, but it turns out to be unstoppable. When he thinks about something, he says it. If he takes a moment, he finally declares what is going on in his head.
And one of the slogans he repeats when studying the run-up to a confrontation is that he doesn’t like having a particular history with an opponent against him, known as ‘head to head’ in tennis slang .
Officially, this Wednesday he starts with a 0-0 with his second rival at Wimbledon 2024, because only the official tournaments of the highest professional category are counted on the scoreboard.
But for Carlos Alcaraz, 21 years old and world No. 3, current champion of the tournament, the reality is quite different. He has a 0-1 tie with the Australian Alexander Vukic. Not because of this particular player, because he did nothing negative, but because of the situation in which the defeat took place, nailed by the Murcian.
It was very painful and he wanted revenge this afternoon, around 3:30 pm On Track 1 of All England Club because the organization separated him from the headquarters. It’s a bit slower, but the best thing about the stadium is that it also has a retractable roof, which protects against the dreaded rain.
Alcaraz lost to Vukic, 28 years old and No. 69, in Roland Garrosin the previous phase of 2020. The ‘Aussie’ of Montenegrin origin and university background in the United States delayed the Paris debut of the Spaniard, who had already suffered a severe setback in the previous edition by failing to win the junior category .
They went down 4-6, 7-6 (5) and 6-3, with the added bitter taste of letting a match point slip away. He has settled accounts with Roland Garros, a few weeks ago, he lifted the Musketeers Cup as champion, he also wants to start balancing forces with Vukic, leaving that memory.
He really wanted, at almost 17 years old, to endorse the step forward he was taking. They stopped him dead. “You could see it was going to be special. At 17 he was destroying the ball. Intuited that something big was going to happen, and two years later he was world number one. It’s crazy,” Vukic points out on the official website of ATP.
Note that they have a friendly relationship. “I trained with him in Beijing. He is a super nice guy. I have a lot of respect for how he behaves with everything,” says the Australian, a chess lover, who “I practice when I can.”
Surviving a match point match Sebastian Ofner to reach the intersection with Alcaraz, what Carlitos has been waiting for a long time, wants to beat, now, Vukic.
Source: La Verdad
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