2023-05-08 00:23:02
«As I have said many times, I am an ambitious boy and we are going to go to Rome». He will surpass Djokovic with his mere participation in the tournament
Carlos Alcaraz has successfully defended the commitments made in the two clay tournaments played, 500 points in Barcelona, where he was champion again, and 1,000 in Madrid, where he also repeated last year’s success. Meanwhile, Absent he left 250 points when he fell against Dusan Lajovic in the quarterfinals of Banja Luka, a tournament that took the place in Belgrade and where he defended the title. The Balkan, in addition, gave up 360 points by not playing in Madrid, where in 2022 he lost in the semifinals, precisely against Alcaraz.
Thus, this Monday the Murcian, who has been, in two stages, a total of 22 weeks as the leader of the world rankings, He appears just five points away, 6,775 compared to 6,770, from the man who, with his tenth title at the Australian Open, displaced him from first place in the ranking on January 29. “As I have said many times, I am an ambitious boy and we are going to go to Rome,” he commented at a press conference, with the Mutua champion’s trophy in front of him.
Alcaraz lived a fleeting second period, from March 20 to April 3, in the attic of the ATP, with his victory in Indian Wells, but he gave up first place again with his defeat against Jannik Sinner in the Miami semifinals. Djokovic did not play any of the two tournaments due to his refusal to get vaccinated against covid.
Absent at the Foro Italico in 2022 and directly qualified for the second round, will add 10 points and overtake Djokovic, who, as the defending champion, will not add a single point to his balance and is even exposed to seeing his account diminished if he does not revalidate the victory. In this way, on May 22, once the tournament is over, Alcaraz will return to number 1.
Accurate in the finals
“I have the ability to play the important moments well. I grow up and do different things from other players. I am a finals tennis player. I have played 13 and I have only lost 10”, said Alcaraz in relation to the difficult commitment overcome against the German Jan-Lennard Struff.
On September 12, 2022, Alcaraz became, at the age of 19 years and 18 weeks, a the youngest number 1 since the creation of the ranking, in 1973, thanks to his victory against Casper Ruud in the final of the US Open. Despite the abdominal injury suffered when he was playing the quarterfinals of the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 against Holguer Rune, which prevented him from playing in the last months of last year, he managed to finish the season on a high and appeared at the ATP Finals in Turin to be honored accordingly.
At Roland Garros he lost last year in the quarterfinals against the German Alexander Zverev, for which he defends 360 points. At Wimbledon, which begins on June 3, he fell in the round of 16 against Jannik Sinner, but he can only add, like all competitors, since the ATP decided not to distribute points in the last edition of the tournament after the unilateral decision of the responsible for the tournament to ban Russian and Belarusian tennis players from participating due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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