the murcian Carlos Alcarazone of the heroes of the moment, visits this Monday the anthill. The 19-year-old tennis player won his first Grand Slam last Monday, September 12, and, with this great victory in New York, he managed to become the youngest player to reach number 1 in the ATP men’s ranking.
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His numbers amaze, to the point that he is already considered by many to be the worthy successor to Rafa Nadal. Time will tell, but for now, he’s on the right track.
The young man was born on May 5, 2003 in El Palmar, a district in the Region of Murcia just a few minutes by car from the capital. Almost twenty years later he is the new Spanish hero, a lanky, tall, approachable tennis player. Carlitos is tremendously competitive, the diminutive doesn’t scare him because it sounds good to him, because that’s how he listens when he calls him his grandfather CarlosHello Grandma Paquitao Carlosthe father, or Virginiathe Sevillian mother.
Carlitos, as he also calls himself on Instagram, attended high school at the Marqués de Vélez institute, in his town, and was lucky enough to have a tutor who supervised his studies so that he did not interrupt his projection.
As sure of himself on and off the court, as spontaneous and natural as when he uttered that memorable phrase in front of a television camera when he was barely ten years old: “I want to win a Grand Slam and be number one”. He got it last week, by winning his first US Open. In the final he beat Casper Ruud and in the ATP ranking he is first, above Ruud himself and his great idol, Rafa Nadal, who is third.
Alcaraz overflows sympathy and security. Aplomb. Family preparation worked from the beginning, since grandfather Carlos realized that Carlitos would go far when he saw him, at just three years old, wield the racket, “bigger than him”. Memories in the thread of a biography that has barely begun to be written. It is already, in its own right, the center of attention.
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This child is a beast, and a mine. A kid who dazzles beyond the tracks, be they cement, grass or brick dust. That he multiplies his admirers with each drop and with each phrase, even if interviews are forbidden to him while he competes; Although Virginia continues to insist that “he should not be late”, the mothers! She passed her driver’s license in February. And, of course, he is only 19 years old.
The player, this season, has won 51 games out of 60 played. In money it translates to 7,364,216 dollars, the amount that Carlitos has pocketed since January, according to the data offered by the ATP itself. Of those seven, 2.6 million correspond to the US Open. In his career as a whole, the number amounts to 9,119,045.
With his triumph in New York, he reached the number 1 position in the world ranking, also becoming the youngest player in tennis history to achieve it. In Spain, only five players have reached the highest position: Arancha Sanchez Vicario, Carlos Moya, John Charles Ferrero, Rafael Nadal y Garbiñe Muguruza.
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