Carlos Alcaraz
Alcaraz begins preseason together with his sights set on Melbourne & the Profession Grand Slam
Spaniard will chase his fifth main title total at January’s Australian Open
December 11, 2024
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Carlos Alcaraz watching an NBA sport in New York final week alongside Ben Shelton.
By ATPTour.com/es Employees
Carlos Alcaraz is again on court docket. On Monday, the Spaniard formally started his preseason collectively together with his group at Actual Sociedad Membership de Campo in Murcia, which is near his house in Palmar, as he prepares for the upcoming 2025 season.
Alcaraz ended his yr enjoying within the Davis Cup Closing 8 in Malaga, the place Rafael Nadal performed the final occasion of his legendary profession. After Spain bowed out within the quarter-finals towards the Netherlands, Alcaraz took a vacation together with his buddies within the Dominican Republic, utilizing it as a chance to disconnect on the seaside, chill out on a ship, and play golf.
The break marked the top of a stunning 2024 during which he gained the Roland Garros and Wimbledon titles, the silver medal on the Olympic Video games in Paris, the ATP Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells and an ATP 500 crown in Beijing, the place he noticed off Jannik Sinner in an exciting closing.
Alcaraz, who will finish the yr as No. 3 within the PIF ATP Rankings, behind Sinner and Alexander Zverev, will kick off his 2025 marketing campaign on the Australian Open, a event he’s but to win. If Alcaraz have been to say victory in Melbourne, he would turn out to be the youngest man within the historical past of the sport to finish the Profession Grand Slam.
In a bid to drag it off, the 21-year-old has laid out a demanding coaching schedule of a number of weeks earlier than he boards the aircraft that may take him Down Underneath in early January. As soon as there, he can be trying to usurp defending champion Sinner.
Within the coming days, Alcaraz can be practising on the Ferrero Tennis Academy in Villena with Flavio Cobolli, the World No. 32. The Spaniard’s classes there can be overseen by Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel Lopez, who has formally joined the Murcia native’s group.
On Friday Alcaraz, who ended the 2024 season with 54 wins and 13 defeats, can be on the official opening of ‘Los pies en la tierra’ (Ft on the bottom), an Alcaraz Basis exhibition that seeks to spotlight the significance of equal alternatives for kids with a journey by way of the tennis participant’s life.
Editor’s word: This story was translated from ATPTour.com/es.
