Alcaraz: “In the end I said, 'I have thrown a lot of eggs on him'”

Carlos Alcaraz addressed the media after winning his first match on grass and at Wimbledon against the Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama in five sets. The 18-year-old from Murcia, increasingly loose in his appearances, revealed what he had told his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, just after the match: “At the end I told him, 'I have thrown a lot of eggs on him.”

Carlos explained what it meant for him to play for the first time on grass at a professional level: “I had played in juniors here, two years ago, but it is nothing comparable. It was tough, because I hadn't been able to play any turf tournaments before arriving here, where I improved little by little in training. In the game I felt good, I knew how to fight and suffer “.

His next commitment in the tournament, he faces it with enthusiasm: “It is to enjoy, to live the moment to play against Medvedev, who is number two.” Finally, I speak of his phobia of insects, in relation to the appearance of a bumblebee in his encounter with Uchiyama: “A little scared if they give me, not other animals.” And he said that what he likes most about Wimbledon is “wearing all white.” “I find it very beautiful, precious.”