Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz, angry at Villa

The The arrival of Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz has increased passions in the Olympic Village in Paris which is gradually being filled by athletes from different parts of the world who in the next few days will be in action at the 2024 Games.

There is nothing like Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard was a unique character in Paris where he won fourteen times. A statue of twenty-two Grand Slam winners was erected three years ago at the venue’s main entrance.

Face Nadal his last Olympic Games. Individual gold at Beijing 2008 and doubles at Rio 2016 with Marc López, the Balearic Islander assumed that Paris would be his final Olympic stop. In the final leg of his journey, the former world number one is seeking a reunion of glory before a farewell to the level of success he has tasted and longed for several times in his extraordinary career.

But everything was new for Alcaraz. The Murcian returned to Roland Garros where he triumphed a few weeks ago, where he achieved the first of the two majors that he has already accumulated in the current 2024, before Wimbledon, the fourth major of his short but impeccable career. At twenty-one years old, seventeen years younger than Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz is already an athlete with unstoppable projection.

Nadal and Alcaraz, Alcaraz and Nadal, are some of the great attractions of Paris 2024. If the crew lights up the Olympic aspect, those from the Balearic Islands and Murcia are some of the brightest.

Both, along with the rest of the expedition that will compete in the Olympic tennis tournament, They are in the Parisian Villa. They decided not to lose all the flavor of this competition, the sporting event par excellence that takes place only every four years and where great athletes of all modalities occasionally meet. There is no such thing.

In recent times, the residence of the athletes has accelerated. Since this Monday, he has been accommodated andThe Spanish tennis team started training this Tuesday, divided between morning and afternoon.

The fashionable couple Nadal and Alcaraz have no rest and His presence at Villa raises unusual expectations from his arrival. Social networks are full of pictures with the Balearic, or with the Murcian. Or both. ANDespecially the Spaniards, such as members of the handball team such as Kauldi Odriozola and Abel Serdio who were photographed with Nadal or Miguel Sánchez Migallón who was able to have his photo taken with the two.

In addition, others like them posted their photos on social networks. This is the case of the Chilean Paulina Vega, of table tennis, the Egyptian Hana Goda, members of the Spanish under-21 soccer team such as Sergio Camello, the boxer Rafael Lozano, the Malaysian Thinaa Muralitharan of badminton or the Panamanian gymnast Hillary Heron , among many others who, at every step, asked Spanish references to appear in a photo with their mobile phone.

Rafael Nadal face its fourth Olympic Games. He made his debut at age 18 at Athens 2004 but only played doubles with his current coach, Carlos Moyá. It was in Beijing that he enjoyed the biggest Olympic success of his career, the gold achieved in the individual table after defeating the Serbian Novak Djokovic in the semifinals and the Chilean Fernando González in the final.

Absent due to injury from London 2012 and Tokyo 2021, it was in Rio de Janeiro where he achieved another metal. He was champion with Marc López in doubles. And in the individual he finished on the edge of the podium. He finished fourth, losing the match for bronze to Japanese Kei Nishikori.

For Alcaraz, who had been one of the event’s great favourites, it was an exciting challenge. After achieving success at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, he returned to the clay of Paris as a great stronghold of the Spanish team. This is his debut at the Games and he is living them up with gusto. It is a priority for the Murcian to lead the vintage doubles with Rafael Nadal, the stylish couple of the Games.