With his impressive victory in Indian Wells, we already have him perched again at number 1 in the ranking, surpassing Novak Djokovicand leaving aside that couple of injuries in a row that made us doubt these weeks.
In Spain, logically, it is difficult for these things to surprise us. But a former partner and expert teacher of this sport used to say that “we can’t teach tennis: the kids learn it”. He Uncle Tony he was always aware of this: “here the special one was my nephew, not me”.
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Carlos Alcaraz reigns in Indian Wells and recovers the world number one
Carlos Alcaraz reigns in Indian Wells and recovers the world number one
The lyrical idea of Foster Wallace about the chosen ones – “a few capable of doing things with their bodies that the rest of us can only dream of” -, a data quarry director specified it for us: “Those who make the leap have some variable well above the range that corresponds to them Some is speed, others strength, others some technical concept…”
How could a next tennis number one be different? Is it possible to have a more lethal combination of drive liftado in left hand than that of Rafael Nadal to destroy on land? Can you have a more superhuman ball-eye connection than Roger Federer? Can you hit a two-handed backhand cleaner than Novak Djokovic?
It is evident that Carlitos has a lot of all that. And we are amazed by his ‘drops’, so aesthetic and effective. And that the team that he makes with Juan Carlos Ferrero -and even more now when the ATP has decided to allow communication on the track-, it is a player-coach combination that is difficult to improve.
But in a purely intuitive way we notice an additional feature in his staging. Doesn’t that smile from ear to ear, so natural, so contagious, so unusual in the sport of silence, please!, call your attention? What if it was that impressive and contagious smile that truly differentiated Carlos Alcaraz to reach and stay at number one in your sport?
Racket in hand, Carlitos always seems to be enjoying himself much more than his rivals on the court. That there is no coach to prepare it.
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