Carlos Alcaraz, who would have thought it? It will only and exclusively come at the expense of Jannik Sinner, who has already been affected.
“I told myself to try, to focus on one point at a time, to keep playing my tennis and take my chances-I wanted to walk off the court with no regrets, having played the points my way, with the knowledge that I gave everything.” These words come from Carlos Alcaraz, who gave everything in recent days to the point of winning his fifth 500-category title, at the culmination of a “fratricidal” battle against friend and rival Jannik Sinner.
A victory that was by no means a foregone conclusion, and not only because his rival from Alto Adige made life difficult for him from the first moment. It wasn’t even a little bit because the Iberian, although few were aware of it, was back from a very complicated period. We only found out about it in retrospect, however, once we filed the Atp 500 in Beijing that marked, in a way, the rebirth of the champion from Murcia.
Yeah, because the 4-time Slam champion revealed it only in recent days, as we find out from the statements, reported by Ubitennis, made at the end of the final against Sinner. Alcaraz spilled the beans, more precisely, the moment he was asked why his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, “felt” that match to the point of bursting into tears after the fateful match point.
Alcaraz and Ferrero’s tears: that explains it all
To this remark he responded with some astonishment, except to then dwell on a possible justification for those tears, which were both of emotion and happiness.
“I didn’t realize this detail… The truth,” confessed Alcaraz, “is that the last two months were not easy, a complicated period on and off the field, and we came out of it together. It was special to raise this trophy in front of my team and part of my family. Thanks to all of them over the course of the last few weeks I have regained the will to travel and the right motivation.”
“After New York I went through a complicated moment,” he admitted, ”I was down in the dumps, unmotivated, I had no desire to pick up the racket: we talked a lot, put things back on track, I understood that I had to get back to training quickly, to return to the court stronger both mentally and physically. We’ve been working hard to get back to moments like that together, and so I guess today’s match was exciting for them as well, just for all those reasons.” The worst is over, thankfully. And Carlos has been reborn, we can say, at the “expense” of Sinner, who despite fighting to the bitter end was unable to steal the title at stake from him in Beijing.
