By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, October 5, 2024
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Stumbling by means of a disappointing American summer season hard-court season, Carlos Alcaraz is flying excessive in China this fall.
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Beijing champion Alcaraz swept proficient Chinese language Juncheng Shang 6-3, 6-2 in his Rolex Shanghai Masters opener.
It was Alcaraz’s tenth consecutive victory.
Haunted by the emotional hangover of falling within the Olympic gold-medal match to Novak Djokovic in Paris, Alcaraz was upset by Gael Monfils in his Cincinnati opener earlier than bowing to Botic van de Zandschulp in a US Open second spherical shocker.
Since then, Alcaraz has received 19 of 21 units he is performed in his 10-match successful streak.
“I feel I am feeling nice on the courtroom, bodily I am feeling good,” Alcaraz advised the media in Shanghai. “For me, for my tennis, it is actually essential to really feel that means. I am hitting the ball actually, very well as properly, so I am making an attempt to be the identical means within the matches.”
The reigning Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion attributes his fall rise to 2 easy causes: He is feeling good bodily and he is reconnected with the enjoyment of enjoying.
“I am a man that tries to maintain the constructive issues. For instance, within the American swing, it did not go as I anticipated, so I had extra time to arrange properly this a part of the season,” Alcaraz mentioned. “I had some weeks that I actually labored, I put in actually good work bodily on the courtroom as properly, simply to really feel nice coming to this event.
“I feel that is the distinction, and that is why I am exhibiting actually good tennis, as a result of bodily I am feeling nice and, you realize, I am simply making an attempt to have pleasure and luxuriate in my time on the courtroom, enjoying good factors, enjoying good rallies, and the way in which that I am hitting the ball is sort of good recently.”
