Major revelation at Wimbledon that exposed Alcaraz

Carlos Alcaraz He is 21 years old, an age that is sometimes overshadowed by his achievements. Four Grand Slamas finals, full of victories. He is very fast, although the learning phase continues, although his deployment of resources invites us to think of a “very complete and versatile” tennis player as he defines to him. Novak Djokovic. It is, even with nuances to resolve, to polish many times through the process of experience and maturity.

“Sometimes you hit him in the head,” acknowledged his coach, Juan Arlos Ferrero. His student makes the easiest smash in a virguería, attempting to kill the ball with a gentle blow. It was so complicated that this time at Wimbledon he missed a big mistake. The ball stayed at his feet.

An outrageous part of its features. “Carlos’ game is different. Those kinds of blows are natural to him, come naturally to him. Many times he surprises you and makes you happy and sometimes you say, it’s like a failure, like he’s going to finish and hit a semi-hit, you’re going to hit him. We know that his game is different and it also gives us a lot of fun,” he detailed. Ferrero, who always chose to work under Murcian conditions, respecting creative freedom. Although inviting him to know how to choose better and better the moment when to offer a show and at what moment the high competition requires winning without playing the best tennis. The most distinctive feature of outliers.

Alcaraz taught in the final with Novak Djokovic which takes the pulse of his emotional state and his tactics in related battles. Pure, almost without any disconnection, are the stages where he leaves the game. And he gave a show, though from the stability of his serve and forehand. No chaos.

The tennis player explained that “sometimes I have to take an effective shot instead of other options, but sometimes I do it because I’m nervous and this kind of shot relaxes me because it puts a smile on my face although sometimes it creates disasters. The truth is that it will work. For me, it is more difficult to take easy shots,” he confessed.

Catalog cool ‘hot shot’ strokes. It attracts the public and drives the rival crazy, because they often enter. “I know sometimes I should play a more effective shot, but that ‘hot shot’ helps me. Maybe I’ve matured and it’s over, but we are going to continue enjoying what we like: having fun, looking for complicated shots,” he says.

In the end he controlled his nerves better than on other occasions, they only appeared an hour and a half before the match, as he revealed, and at the time of the closing of the title. A tension that no one can release. “Controlled nerves are good and necessary. If you don’t know how to manage them, they are against you. Federer, Nadal or Djokovic have them, but they know how to handle them. “I’m in ,” he says.

“It’s something I do,” Alcaraz said. In Ferrero helpful and from the point of view that “it is improving in every way because it has accumulated the experiences necessary for it. He is doing amazing for his age. He seems almost normal for everything he has achieved, but he has incredible value.

From the drop shot, his word, to everything that can be invented on a tennis court.

Alcaraz, very clear. A philosophy that makes it very clear how he thinks and what he is like when a racquet ball comes into his domain. An out Alcaraz.