Carlos Alcaraz, a prodigy in uncertain times in the elite of the circuit

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In less than two months,

has offered sufficient reasons to be considered a tennis player capable of everything.

Yes, he came very well from last season, which he concluded by winning the NextGen ATP Finals, where he made it quite clear that the tournament was too small for him.

Before, he had knocked down

for the first time in the United States Open, already with his first title, the ATP 250 of Umag, in his pocket.

Alcaraz finished 2021 39th in the ranking and was running as one of the players to keep in mind, an 18-year-old boy with a huge competitive appetite and qualities to satisfy it.

Another thing was to imagine that at this point in the season he would have already become the youngest winner of an ATP500, thanks to his meteoric triumph in Rio, and that with only seven Masters 1000 behind him he would be in a position to be the winner. earlier in Miami if he wins this Sunday (7:00 p.m., Let's go) against Norwegian

, seeded eighth, whom he beat 6-2, 6-4 last year in the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 in Marbella.

It's not just about that, which is already a lot, not even about his leap to eleventh place on the ladder or to a place below in the unlikely event of defeat, but about his stamp, the authority and the self-confidence with which he moves on the track, of the magic that comes from everything he does.

Only

, who needed five sets in the third round of the Australian Open, and

, pushed to the limit in the Indian Wells semifinals, have been able to neutralize him.

The impressive succession of performances has aroused words of amazement.

"This boy is an animal"

"This kid is no joke. He's the real deal and I don't know if this is a surprise. I don't know if we've seen someone this young, who you expect to win matches like this this often. This kid is an animal,"

, former number 1 in the world, after contemplating a new victory against Tsitsipas in Miami.

"He is playing crazy tennis for his age. It is really incredible how he plays, how he competes. He has an incredible career ahead of him," said

, his latest victim, after falling in the semifinals.

Alcaraz dazzles.

And he does it at a time of certain misrule in the elite: waiting for the return of

, absent in the first two Masters 1000 of the course due to his refusal to be vaccinated against Covid, on the clay court tour;

with Nadal stranded after suffering a crack in a rib;

with

operated on for a hernia that will keep him out for at least a month, and with the generation called to lead the changing of the guard, which includes, among others,

and Tsitsipas, arrested again.

If Nadal was, until his defeat with

in the final of Indian Wells and his new physical mishap, the most solvent proposal, winner in Australia of his twenty-first major, champion also in the ATP 5000 in Acapulco and in the ATP 250 in Melbourne, undefeated until the unfortunate outcome in the desert Californian, Alcaraz, winner in the three finals he has played, immediately takes over.

Miami, a tournament denied to the Spaniards in the men's draw, where only

lifted the cup twice, is preparing to crown Alcaraz.

, in 1997,

, in 2003,

, in 2013, and Nadal himself, up to five times, stayed in the final of the tournament.

With the extraordinary credit accumulated at an astonishing rate,

, as he is already known in Florida, has all the numbers to cross that border.

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