Juan Carlos Ferrero: “Carlitos? It looks good”

I will continue to do it in my own way

Carlos Alcaraz

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In the last days of the tournament, journalists are Trileros information.

Emine Sinmaz is a gift.

Write The guardian.

He says he is preparing a story for the weekend, a portrait of Carlitos. How I see it, which is seen from Spain.

– Do you want as much as they wanted Rafa?

I do not know what to answer, so I tell him that one and the other, Alcaraz and Nadal, did a task with each other. In Spain, adolescents no longer remember Nadal. For them, Nadal is vintage, something from the past, a name that comes out as Tears in the rain. I tell him that the oldest, on the other hand, questions Alcaraz. They say that it will not become as tall as Nadal, and it is obvious and an act of cruelty.

– It is impossible to be as tall as Nadal. He is the best athlete that has ever been in our country. He is one of the twenty greatest who has ever been in the history of sport – I say.

Emine Sinmaz nods as if I had the absolute truth. Mine is my truth, which everyone loads with their own.

Like all journalists, we are Trileros, I also do to me. When the columnist leaves The guardianI turn around and ask Jennifer Paddock.

Paddock written for Tennis View USA. She has been my office for three years, she is friendly and silent and continues American tennis in the world, and this last detail is important because today, from 2:30 p.m. Spanish, Alcaraz plays the pass to the final against Taylor Fritz.

Taylor Fritz is a giganton who serves as a devil. In what we wear as a tournament, add 79 AS (they leave 15.8 per game; Alcaraz, another good team, signed 38, less than half). Fritz is also one of the great hopes of American male tennis, orphan as since the time of Ashe, Connors, McENROE, Couer, Agassi, Sampras, Roddick …

– The years were incredible, do you know? – Jennifer Paddock said to me: “We also had Chris Evert, Navratilova, Tracy Austin … Tennis was very popular in our country.

– And today?

– Dude, it’s not so much. We are clearly behind American football, basketball, even golf course. But in the past ten years, we are growing up. And people like Fritz and his friend Tommy Paul, Júniors generation partners, or Tiafoe, Korda and Shelton do a lot.

(Frity is today the fifth of the world. In 2024, he played the US Open final. Paddock also told me about Fritz’s family. His mother, Kathy May, was a world world in 1977: he was a quarter-final in Roland Garros and the United States Open; his father, Guy Fritz, did not fly so high. influencer. They follow 455,000 Instagramos; In X, its presence is anecdotal, I am fascinated by the asymmetries that occur between one network and another).

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I ask Paddock:

– On Wednesday, Fritz said he had been able to defeat Alcaraz. How do you see it?

– I would like to get there. But I don’t know. The sinner and the Alcaraz are at a level higher than the rest of the circuit. If Fritz wants to do something, he will have to improve in the rest and reverse. It is obvious that Alcaraz will attack him.

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This Thursday, the Alcaraz team does not appear in Wimbledon. He spends the day, walking in the center of London, unconscious of tennis because today he does not play any of his rivals and Alcaraz, on days, he prefers to alienate, do things in its own way.

The day before, he had exploded with Álvaro, his older brother, then played with the team at Aorangi Park. Now, a Petanca, now at barefoot, even a kibble, twisted on the grass …

Carlos is still Carlitos.

When we ask Juan Carlos Ferrero how he sees everything, the coach responds:

– It looks very good. I couldn’t get a better way from the semi-finals, less than the start against Fognini.

– And how was this process?

– It cannot be counted.

– Fritz said that if I played as in the first two sets against Khachanov, I could win Alcaraz.

“It’s the uncle, she plays a lot. Anyway, these comments help us be more motivated. But we are not always the same. I don’t know if Fritz will look at Alcaraz as we see before Khachanov. All the matches are different, the sensations come and parties.

While waiting for the semi-final, I’m waiting for the portrait of Carlitos in The goalkeeper.

Sabalenka Falls: This Wimbledon is not either

All thatryna Sabalenka does not do, the head of the WTA, a tennis player tormented at the central courtyard, then Iga Swatek, a metronome, perfect from start to finish. While the Bélarus, leader of the circuit, is entangled and finds itself in front of the American Amanda Anisimova, another talent of the powerful American women’s school (6-4, 4-6 and 6-4), Swiatek runs on Belinda Bencic. DESTRET based on winning points (Signature 26, ahead of Bencic Eleven), a recipe 6-2 and 6-0 which anticipates things: tells us that Swiatek (24), champion of five big chelems, returns to the scene.
The data is important. Decided in these times, depressed after his positive by trimetazidine (he accepted his responsibility, has disappeared from the circuit for a month in 2024), we have been waiting for his reaction for some time. Not a title added this year, a rarity in a tennis player who has taken 22 tournaments since his emergence in 2020, in this Roland Garros, which was played in November, in the rain, with curious cutlery and covered with masks. The pass of Swiatek, which Wimbledon has never won, goes further than Sabalenka, owner of three big ones, never the best here.