“I love the earth,” he wrote Carlos Alcaraz After defeating German Daniel Altmaier In the round of 16 of the 1,000 masters of Montecarlo.
The Murcia has a “problem” that most tennis players would already want to do: play so well on all the surfaces that it is difficult to opt for a favorite. After Win Wimbledon twicehe declares that the grass loves him, and that he did not step on it almost because there are no such courts in Murcia or in the Ferrero Tennis Academy. The hard track seems the best adapts to its conditions for the ease it has to make winners, and it won its first Grand Slam, in the US Open 2022, becoming the youngest number one in history. But where he grew up he played in whipped land, like almost all Spaniards, hence the love for the slowest field to play tennis.
It is a surface to be patient and make the points more, because the sand slows the ball and there is more time to arrive and usually return more balls than usual. Alcaraz, who has blows everywhere to harm, is sometimes difficult to wait for the right time and risk and Sometimes undined errors are triggered. He continued committing some more against Altmaier, but in general his performance was overwhelming and his sensations on the track are increasing, as evidenced by the smiles he took at some spectacular points, in an extraordinary volley or with the classic left. That smile of knowing that he has bundled her.
He has not been able to leave his seal in the Principality because he has barely played there, but Monegasco’s public has already spent his first great moment seeing Carlos. To the rest, the Spanish was always a threat. Altmaier managed to counteract the first break against, but not the second, which came next to shoot at number three in the world in the first set. In the second, more “hot,” Alcaraz gave no option to his rival and ended up taking a very positive game for him.
There were good exchanges and ball rhythm and the Murcian took a step forward. You need to give another today in the rooms, where she will have a rival even younger than him, Arthur Fils. The Frenchman is 20 years old. He spent time training with Sergi Bruguerafrom October 2023 to May 2024. It had no good results. The problem was more in his head (it is age, too), than in his racket. Now he is more focused and hence his ranking, the best of his career, on the 15th of the world.