Juan Carlos Ferrero called it the “perfect” tactic. Carlos now knows how to be Palletto and knows how to be Federer, blocking it seems more and more difficult
A variation every four shots. The extraordinary baggage of Carlos Alcaraz seems to start towards a completeness that terrifies the opponents, and the world has had a taste of it. Jannik Sinner had to swallow a bite seeing the rival not only raise the US Open Cup but at the same time appropriate the world throne, owned by the blue for 65 weeks in a row. In the final Alcaraz, according to his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, played in a “perfect” way, as perhaps never in his career, especially as he had never managed to do against Sinner. From the Wimbledon final, not even two months have passed, and to New York has been a completely different story. So what changed? The champion of Murcia, right in the favorite ground by Jannik, the concrete, did what he had not succeeded in the Championships and partly even in the victorious games in Rome and Paris, that is, varying the blows so much and in such a precise way as to send the defense of Sinner’s defense by tilt.
one in four
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According to a tennis insights study, Alcaraz on average varied game once every 4 points. From the straight it passes to the short ball, change the type of reverse, go down to the net, slow down the rhythm and so on. And if he will do it as he has succeeded throughout the New York tournament, deciphering the game of Spanish becomes an impossible rebus. Above all because Alcaraz does not do everything well, but it does it extraordinarily well, and with a heavy ball that only Sinner today is able to contrast. In addition, to the immense talent donated by Mother Natura, Murciano adds what perhaps is his most deadly weapon, the ability to accelerate from detention that incinerates the opponents, especially of straight. This entails, for example, that with Alcaraz every attempt to slow down the game becomes extremely dangerous, since the risk of seeing a fireball is very concrete.
perfect tactics
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Ferrero explained to the press conference that in Wimbledon, against Sinner, “Alcaraz had not played well, doing what Sinner wanted”. In a nutshell, he had not been able to vary, confronting himself in the favorite ground from Italian, that is, that of the “who brings stronger”. Poches on Pallates: You want by regularity, you want by attitude, Sinner in that type of match is practically unbeatable also for Alcaraz. But always in Wimbledon, Grigor Dimitrov had traced the way: if you change, if you do it with intelligence and skill, and a high percentage of before service is maintained, Sinner is, if not tag. Carlos understood the mistakes of London and implemented a perfect tactic in New York, but as Ferrero said, “one thing is to study and think about the game, one thing is to do it in practice”. And Alcaraz did it in the best possible way.
Winning/Errors
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Other given that makes it clear what level of final has played the new number one in the world in Flushing Meadows, is the differential between the winners and the free errors: +20 Alcaraz, -4 Sinner. This means that Murciano not only changed the game by sending the South Tyrolean to the crazy, but he also did it by pulling an absolutely stunning amount of Winners for the risks he took. What is certain is that except new “letarghi” of the Spaniard (possible, attention: nobody remains in such an evident state of grace forever), it will be really complicated to contrast it. An almost alien tennis player, capable of transforming herself within a few seconds from “Pallettoro” Terraiolo (yes, in the final he raised several “lobbits” during the exchanges to annoy Sinner) to Federer. Clava and Fioretto: very dangerous combination. Sinner is already studying the counter -moves.
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