The Tour: Origins - Carlos Alcaraz

When you have a player who achieves all these good results, all the people show a more interesting moment: they are the 50 youngest players among the 50 best since Rafa Nadal in 2004. I want to be Carlos and Karate and let all the people know that they are thinking . I trust in myself I trust in my game I am working hard to be able to compete against those three years I am not afraid I mean I am a prosperous player but feeling 18 years old I have to do things that are 18 years old Juan Carlos the family and I try to give him all the facilities so that he can have a normal life in a life different from the one he is living, he knows that he has to leave, he knows his game, his path, his

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naments and if he wins, he wins, if not, his life, showing him a very different from others who was your biggest influence or who was the reason you started playing tennis uh my father yes I was a tennis player when you really discovered that you had something special when I was 13 or 14 years old when I started traveling outside of Spain in At this time I met him for the first time when he was 12 years old and at this time he is a void, he had talent and he had the ability to do different situations, different games, other players of his age it is impossible for us to do. at the academy at the juan

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ferrer academy I live here I have been training here for two years my house is an hour away by car it is not very far but living here you are thinking about tennis 24 hours a day and I mean living in a tennis academy I know it is perfect to become a good tennis player.

What is history like for you today? You know, first of all I always do my warm-up routine in the gym and then the one on the court when Carlos was 15 years old. I personally thought that Carlos needs a top-level coach. My thought was that Carlos needs a coach who has to teach him habits like sacrifice and always being focused on each point and all these things that he has to improve and in my thought was that the best coach in this category was Juan Carlos, I came here to the academy to train a little with some players and I remember that Juan Carlos was on the call and he told me to train once and I said oh my god I'm going to train with Juan Carlos.

How do you describe yourself when someone asks you who you are? Juan Carlos was number one in the world. He is champion of Iran. He won the first Davis Cup in Spain. I mean, he has a lot of

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naments. Master 1000. 16 ATP tournaments. a great career albert molina told me that juan

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would work with me and be my coach and he was special to me, you know, a year before I met juan carlos, I told my father and my mother that they imagine that juan carlos is in my box when I play against roland garros so it's crazy you know 15 year old boys with juan carlos it's very different to see someone who is very dynamic on the court it was a little inconsistent but his quality in the core was impressive that's what I saw that It was a forehand and it was already good, maybe not the service, it was not as good as it is now physically, but of course you could see someone different from the others, it is difficult to say that he is like a son because he has his family and father and everything but of course he is a very important person in my life that's for sure everything I have done is thanks to him he always says that he has four children I am part of them the experience he is having to face players he has been watching on television for the last few years, of course, it's not easy, but now I think it's ready, but of course the consistency in doing it, we have to work on it.

Wow, I thought I'm working hard and I'm working hard outside of reality you know real life when I came here it's a totally different world everything changed for him the quality of the practice the intensity and he came here and started eating you know like a diet at the academy and start You know, you have to be on time all the time so that everything was very under control. I remember the first day when I lived here at the academy, it was so difficult that I trained in the morning in fitness and tennis and then in the afternoon also at the beginning, you know, I was very used to practicing only once a day and physically I was not doing too much in the first position, here I was crying, you know, in the exercise, so how did you learn to be a hard worker?

I work, yes, I work in the world war and uh, yes, every day, yes, hey, Carlos is a very hard worker, he has very good values ​​and you say something and he does it, the key at that time with the young people so important to a tennis player we live in. The Puerto Rican team states that I have to do that, how will it have any meaning? Yeah, that tournament, I mean, so special to me, so many firsts for his first ATP World Tour title, he also made the quarterfinals a grand slam when he came back. the good results in use open the match against dc pass all the people show more interest in carlos we have more media obviously the whole newspaper has many requests for interviews on all these things outside the code it is part of your job and I am getting used to that , I feel better on the court.

I think this is the second time I've clarified the positive trick. That's all. Yes, the second time comes with the success you have on the court. If you win games, the price will come. so you have to learn to deal with all this it reminds me of many things that when I was 17 or 18 years old it's great to have a star like that from my country a truly extraordinary achievement everyone here in Spain was talking about the next Rafa Nadal, they handled it with all this pressure for three years now, so you know he's ready for everything to come, obviously the most important thing is to keep practicing and try to do all the things we need to do. do to improve his tennis we try to make a balance between all things congratulations you are the champion how does it feel to win this tournament? it means to me I'm so excited right now I'm so excited how much do I do?

You see yourself in Carlos, everyone is different, uh, but of course, as far as the mentality on the court, I'm trying to build someone close to that, I was on the court like calm and cold, wait a minute important but at the same time a winner. players who do their best in practices and not in competitions and he wants to say the opposite, he likes to go there and face people who compete, this is something really important if you want to be one of the best, he feels the pressure Obviously, he feels the pressure. He liked to play on a big field in the central field and in this situation when he plays against the best possible opponent.

He liked Juan Carlos. He always told me that in difficult moments he plays aggressively and he tried it a couple of years ago. When I was younger, I mean, I was 13 or 14 years old. He couldn't do that. I have confidence in the process and I am gaining experience in every game I play with Carlos. I talked a lot with him off the court. I think he is even more. It is important that on the court we say that you practice three hours and then uh what you do the rest of the days is very important so that you know how to eat well rest well watching all this uh together in all in other places where they were you know being very high in the Ranking is very important he knows he is good, very good at that moment and at that age, but I am pretty sure he wants more.

I want to be number one in the world. You have to think about tennis 24 hours a day. one day I changed my life let's say that to become a professional tennis player the most important thing for me is to be the same person he is very humble and very simple and very close to the people he has known for a long time this life is changing for him it is absolutely the same , I know that I am playing well, I am winning matches, I am improving and the branch ranking is going up, but you know that I have to be humble to be the same person and continue to grow.