Carlos Alcaraz will have to learn ruthlessness, even if it costs him some of his circus joy. Until then, enjoy this beautifully unfinished 20-year-old.
under the pressure of meeting Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals this spring. But by Wimbledon he declared: “I am totally different player than French Open. I grew up a lot since that moment.” It had not even been two months.Now he’s got ledges of muscle all over his body, delts and quads like boulders, and he is by acclamation the new regnant player in the world. But with that comes a certain potential … heaviness.
In that respect, Alcaraz is actually nothing like the so-called Big Three. Federer was a perfectionist cloaked in grace, Nadal is all glaring intensity, and Djokovic is a relentless executor. Alcaraz’s main quality is an all-but indescribable creativity. “I always say that I’m full Carlos Alcaraz,” he said this summer. “I just try to follow my own path, try to create Carlos Alcaraz.” He doesn’t have a style as much as a sensibility.
after last year’s U.S. Open victory, when asked to classify his pupil, “It’s very tough to say all these things in words.”It’s a sensibility that requires free flow. Ferrero has said he has struggled to curb Alcaraz from over-employing the drop shot, just because he’s so uncalculated with it. In one match when he was 16, Ferrero finally forbade him to use it at all. As Ferraro relayed the story to the Spanish radio show El Larguero, he told Alcaraz: “Stop. Not one more today.
last month. Alcaraz “has the ability to, you know, destroy the point,” Ferrero observed. But “he also likes toAt a certain point, Alcaraz will have to stop toying around quite so much. When his first-round opponent, Dominik Koepfer, was forced to retire, Alcaraz was actually. “I want to play battles,” he said.
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