• US Open A phenomenal Carlos Alcaraz defeats Tsitsipas, third seed, and gives the great surprise of the Open

"It was a very important victory for me, but the tournament is not over yet."

Carlos Alcaraz

made history on the US Open court by beating Greek

Stefanos Tsitsipas,

third-seeded to become the youngest player since 1992 to play in the round of 16. But the Murcian, at 18 years old, is not satisfied. From humility and with a permanent smile, he wants more. He feels that he is more prepared to assault his dreams, which go through the match that will have

Peter Gojowczyk

next Sunday

. There he awaits another record: he would become the youngest quarter-finalist at the US Open, beating

Andre Agassi

by eight days

when he reached this round in 1988.

The Alcaraz explosion has been boiling for a year.

It was then that he jumped 124 places in the ranking in just one month: from 310 to 186 thanks to his first victory in a Challenger, in Trieste, which made him the fourth Spanish to achieve with less than 18 years, like

Rafa Nadal

, Nicolás

Almagro

and Nicola

Kuhn

.

The enormous future they predicted for him was beginning to come true.

Then came a setback in the previous Roland Garros and the passage through the Australian Open, until he took the joy of a first triumph in an ATP tournament in Croatia last July.

Last night in Flushing Meadows was only a matter of time before he arrived.

Alcaraz was born almost with a racket in his hands.

His father, who was a professional in the 90s, runs the

Club de Campo de El Palmar, in Murcia, and Carlos grew up giving balls.

"It was his passion and it was showing that he assimilated technical concepts very quickly and well," Carlos Alcaraz Sr. told EL MUNDO a few months ago.

The jump began to take place when he was put under the tutelage of

Juan Carlos Ferrero

three years ago

, who yesterday confessed that his legs "trembled" when he saw him on the track where more than a decade ago he reached the final of this same tournament.

Carlos is one of the 60 boys and girls residing at the

Equelite Academy

that the former tennis player has in Villena, a small paradise for emerging tennis stars in which the Murcian feels at home and where he lives concentrated by and for tennis .

Physical stretch

Together with Ferrero, Carlos has prepared to take the leap. There he has given the physical stretch and has shaped his body physically to

be "fast and explosive, but also resistant"

on all types of track. It is what she looks most at about her rivals, a job that is always "done outside of her" watching over nutrition, physiotherapy and rest. The

pringá

his mother is reserved only for rare occasions. That has been his priority in the last year. That, and knowing how to contain his game. "I must know when to work the point, with more patience, to find the moment to

hit the whip,

" he confessed in an interview with

La Verdad

in April.

With that whip on his right he closed the game against Tsitsipas, that blow that the Greek never saw anyone give so hard.

"Carlos felt comfortable. He has a lot of speed on his right and he likes to go forward all the time. He is not a long points player. From the beginning he had a plan and I think he did it very well. Everything fit," he acknowledged. EuroSport after the Juan Carlos Ferrero game.

With his family linked to tennis but without interceding in his career, Alcaraz's mental strength has also been worked on in Villena. First to warn you of the dangers involved in reaching the top of tennis and there Ferrero is your guide from his own experience on the circuit. But also so that "the slab" does not weigh him down, as the former number 1 calls it, if

Rafa Nadal's successor is

appointed

. The Mallorcan is the idol of the young tennis player and with whom he trained before the Australian Open to end up recognizing that the Murcian has a brilliant future. Later he did not hesitate to defeat him in Madrid.

The injection of confidence will be an impetus to fulfill the prophecy made by

Alexander Zverev

after defeating him in Acapulco: "In less than three years he will be among the top ten in the world."

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