The adventure of Carlos Alcaraz in his first Olympic Games he started on Saturday. They accumulated four singles matches and three doubles matches in six days, with one day without competition. This is not the time to repent, “but to give everything,” he said.
“You have to accept it, you have to fight, you have to leave everything you have inside every game, try to do everything perfect even off the court to recover and feel good every game, every day, and that’s what we’re trying to do,” reflected the Murcian, 21-year-old and world No. 3, recent champion of Roland Garrosthe stage where he returned after reaffirming the title on the lawn of Wimbledon.
A tough schedule, though tempered by its own successes. “The doors of medals are opened and we will try to play good tennis, which is a good story, a good feeling if we win a medal,” he commented. You have two chances to hit a metal.
I was hoping for two golds, but the doubles with Rafael Nadal It did not make it past the quarterfinals. “It’s hard to accept,” he said. But there is no time to look back, this Friday (1:30 pm) he will face the semifinal with the Canadian. Felix Auger-Aliassime, 23 years old and number 19. If he wins, in Sunday’s finals for gold. If he loses, he will have to fight for bronze on Saturday.
Alcaraz is at the limit of his strength, although purpose gives him wings. “It’s tough,” he warned of his rival, even though he defeated him months ago in the same match. Roland Garroseighth in the Grand Slam, 6-3, 6-3 and 6-1.
They are 3-3, the last three matches won by Alcaraz, who is very close to the medals. He will go about his business, but everyone will watch his movements. Novak Djokovicthat at 7 pm there is a semifinal with the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
The Serbian felt a sharp pain in his right knee, which had just been operated on, and will undergo medical tests to find out that he suffered from an injury sustained at this same stage two months ago, a meniscal tear.
Alcaraz, at quarters, at the latest, around six o’clock in the afternoon, double Cristina Bucsa-Sara Sorribeswith some young rivals in front, Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider.
Source: La Verdad
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