His ascension has been sky rocketing in a dexterity of a deep fascination of the mysterious to the eye that has seen young buck Carlos Alcaraz straddle the tennis world in an awesome invincibility as the new king that has literally come in but a few strides.
Indeed, at 22 years the Spaniard has signalled the arrival of the new young guard that has outstripped an old order, the last of which a fading Novak Djokovic.
His play has been incredibly lightning fast like the hurtling sea waves that has swallowed up the once ice cool likes of the great Djokovic dethroning the Serb’s Wimbledon domination that put out the legendary Roger Federer to the unshakable Alcaraz insulated in two successive wimbledon crowns to 11 big titles in a combination of Grand Slam titles, trophies of the Nitto ATP finals and ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and Olympic singles gold medals.
Such was his early incredibility when he overran Djokovic in 2023 snd 2024 at Wimbledon that at time Alcaraz basked in a rare fame ss a four time major champion with the French Open title to boot in the space of five weeks.
Alcaraz’s king sized dominance was best demonstrated in a relative finality as to who is the king in the close race between world No 1 Jannik Sinner rolling over the Italian with consummate ease in two straight sets to ending Sinner’s cherished Italian dream and his consecutive 26 match winning record.
The triumph fermented Alcaraz’s growing invincibility as he signalled his next big setting sights – the upcoming French Open and Roland Garros.
However, the Spaniard was gracious in victory, quick to acknowledge Sinner:s potential in stating post match that it was a tough match and the fact that his opponent had come out of the rust of a 3 month ban that had put him out of the game while at the same time welcoming him back to the fold saying he was happy to see him back.
His ousting of Sinner brought him up from World No 3 to 2 and a step away to mounting the No 1 rank.
