This year's clay season is a real touchstone for alcaraz potential! Whether he really rose or was just a meteor in the night sky, I believe the answer will soon be revealed.
From last year to this year, in less than a year, Spain's 18-year-old Alcalas has completed an incredible transformation and repeatedly played a phenomenal performance in the men's tennis world. In particular, Indian Wells, who once again suffered a heavy defeat from Nadal in the semifinals, can still quickly come out of the shadows, and then successfully win the Miami Masters, And Alcaraz seems to have reached the peak of his career.
Now almost everyone is praising the Spanish teenager, thinking that he has risen and that taking over the big three may be able to complete it this season in 2022.
Of course, Alcaraz also said that he was feeling very good now, and even threatened that he was ready to win a Grand Slam title this year.
But when he came to Monte Carlo with great ambition, hoping to copy the Miami fairy tale, show his strength to the world, and tell the outside world that when the new giant really came, almost all of Monte Carlo's attention was focused on the 18-year-old teenager, except for Djokovic, the other players, even if the results were more dazzling than him, were completely reduced to his supporting roles.
To Alcaraz's surprise, the script did not go according to his intentions. The debut against Koda was actually eliminated by the opponent.
But after the game, Alcaraz didn't seem to have any intention of seriously summing up the loss, and whether he was overconfident at the time, still feeling that he had only lost one game, and was still confident in the other clay races that followed.
But his tennis predecessor, 6-time Grand Slam champion Becker, solemnly warned the 18-year-old Spanish teenager when talking about Alcaraz, "He can't believe the hype about him now, he's not the best, let alone the best on the field." ”
In Becker's view, the current Alcaraz are just the better players on the tour this year, still far from growing into giants like Federer, Djokovic and Nadal.
Becker's words really make sense.
If Alcaraz is really the best player in the current men's tennis world, then he will never be cut off by the other side in his debut against Koda. This shows that when he competes with players of the same age, his state is not stable, and his strength is not enough to crush the opponent.
In addition, he has not yet won a single victory against the Giants. Although he and Nadal played in three sets, he did not win the final victory, which was not enough to make him overconfident that his strength could match the giants.
Seeing Alcaraz now, one can't help but think of another player, Canada's Bouchard.
In 2014, the second year of adult tennis, the Canadian girl who was only 20 years old at the time caused a sensation in the tennis world.
Bouchard reached the final four of the Australian Open and the French Open, and reached the final of his third Wimbledon Grand Slam and finished runner-up.
At that time, everyone was touting this beautiful girl, thinking that she would take over the baton of Empress Xiaowei and soon be able to dominate the women's tennis world. Bouchard is also very confident and desperately competing, while cooperating with the WTA and the media to hype themselves. For a moment, Bouchard's scenery was infinite, and even the sound of praise directly overshadowed Empress Xiaowei.
But in 2015, Bouchard, who had been overtotified as if he were invincible, suddenly disappeared. Not only did she never have any dazzling performance on the tour, but she even fell very quickly, and now she has long disappeared from the WTA tour. She's only 28 years old this year.
It is precisely because al-Alcáras is very similar to the experience of Bouchard at that time that Becker said this truth but did not like it.
As Alcaraz prepares to play barcelona, Madrid and Roma next, Becker believes that the Spanish teenager should stop and rest, set himself in the right position, and not rush to prove anything, otherwise it is very likely to bring him injuries.
Of course, judging from the ambitions shown by Alcaraz so far, Becker's words should not be taken by him.
In fact, this is not necessarily a bad thing for Alcaraz's strength test.
If he can really get rid of the frustration of monte Carlo's failure in this year's clay season, and can play at the phenomenon of the Almi Masters in other competitions, it shows that the game he lost to Koda was really his negligence and gave Koda a chance, and Becker may really be worried.
If his state has been declining since Monte Carlo, it means that he really may be likely to be like Bouchard in the past, the higher he is, but the heavier he will fall. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Starry Sky of The Moon River)