Where is the limit of Carlos Alcaraz?

A new record to his already long list of goals accomplished in a race to the top. This Monday he appears in 11th place in the world, just 29 points from entering the ‘top ten’, to continue climbing a ladder that he still leads Novak Djokovic as world number 1.

alcaraz he already feels he has the resources to be among the best. At the beginning of the year he said that his goal for the season was to win a 500 tournament and be among the top 15 in the world. Just three months later, not only has he already won a 500 (Rio de Janeiro) but he has also won his first Masters 1,000 and surpassed the ranking he had set out to do.

His progress in two years has been spectacular. From the 320th position that he occupied in April 2020, he has jumped to 11th and is second in the race of the year to the Turin Masters (after Nadal), with 18 wins from 20 games and two titles. And he will continue to improve on the clay tour that now begins, in which he only defends 266 points of the 5,500 that are at stake until the final of Roland Garros.

The rise of Carlos Alcaraz ?

April 2020: World No. 318
April 2021: World No. 120
April 2022: World No. 11 (from Monday)

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“I am a boy who wants more. I am prepared, I am confident, I am also physically and mentally. Maybe it’s not Roland Garros, but I can win a Grand Slam this year. I know they are Nadal, Djokovic, Tsitsipas or Medvedevwho are the best in the world, but I’m not afraid to say that I’m ready to win a Grand Slam.”

John Charles Ferrerohis coach, his friend, the world number 1 who received him at his academy in Villena at the age of 16 and who has accompanied him on that spectacular trip to the professional circuit, is more cautious. He knows that his pupil is about to win a Grand Slam, that he can reach number 1, but he prefers to play with his feet on the ground. Go step by step. As they have done so far.

“Let’s let things flow. Right now it’s hard to talk about goals or where he can go. Let’s let him play. I think Carlos is capable of having a great year. Maybe it’s the next step, get to the end of the second weeks. It is easy to lose focus & rdquor ;, he said from Miami to the website Puntodebreak.com.

The gravel season is presented as a highway to continue growing, but Ferrero asks for peace of mind. She knows that she can do very well, but also that now is a special moment and that these expectations must be controlled. “I am ready for the clay court tour, in which I hope to get a second Masters 1000 & rdquor ;, says convinced Alcaraz.

Montecarlo (March 11), where he could not play by ranking last year, will be his first challenge. He arrives at the Monegasque event as seeded and favorite, in a tournament in which he reappears Djokovic, who returns after not having been able to play the American tour due to not being vaccinated with covid-19. They won’t be in Monte Carlo Nadalrecovering from his rib injury, nor Medvedevrecently operated on for a hernia that will keep him out for two months, away from the earth.

Ferrero knows how the circus works and does not want alcaraz may deviate from its objectives. “We will create a bubble around it. He has just won a Masters 1,000 and is growing very fast & rdquor ;, explains the former tennis player, who traveled to Miami to be present at the final, a week after the death of his father, to whom alcaraz dedicated his victory in the final. “Eduardo always with us” He signed on the television camera and drew a heart with the three C’s that his grandfather wants him to always have present in his games: “Heart, head and balls & rdquor ;.