Carlos Alcaraz resigns from Rome: "Better to rest and be in Paris one hundred percent"

• Chronicle Alcaraz leaves Zverev in nothing and wins his second Masters 1000 in Madrid

entertained him

, after being practically annihilated, already in the prelude to confetti and champagne.

It is.

Few will dare to discuss it.

prevailed in Madrid after doing so in Barcelona and walks the circuit with unquestionable authority.

Nobody plays like him.

Nobody wins like him.

According to what was seen in the final, the most difficult work, which was a lot, had already been done.

After going over

and

, Zverev was little for him, who chained his tenth consecutive victory and got his fifth career title and second Masters 1000, after also winning in Miami.

To stop a player like him right now you need tennis and attitude, and the German, two-time champion of the tournament, had neither one thing nor the other.

Alcaraz won 6-3 and 6-1, in one hour and two minutes, and is, at 19 years and three days, the youngest champion of the Mutua Madrid Open, surpassing Nadal in precociousness, who won the first of his five titles in the capital, in 2005, with 19 years and five months.

Alcaraz, with the ball boys from Madrid.AP

“I woke up with a swollen ankle from the fall I suffered against Nadal and with a blister.

It was a bit difficult for me to walk, but in the end, together with my team, we managed to be one hundred percent during the match », the Spaniard explained at a press conference, where he announced that

.

«With the desire that I have to fight for a Grand Slam, it is better to rest, recover from the foot and be in Paris one hundred percent».

A break in the sixth game of the first set and three others gave him the victory and made him the sixth man in the professional era to win the first five finals he has played.

«I still have to assimilate everything I am living.

I am a tennis player who is playing very well, performing well on the clay.

You learn from defeats, and I did so after losing the first in Monte Carlo.

I know that now I am a difficult opponent."

Zverev added 25 unforced errors, to 11 for his rival, and made seven winners, compared to 12 for the Spaniard.

The truth is that the giant, close to two meters, was in many moments no more than a disjointed doll, a toy in the hands of Alcaraz, who destroyed it with his usual weapons and his changes of rhythm, making him dance around the dance floor to the tune he he played, either through power or through mimosas, house brand drops.

Zverev's complaint

“Something I have to say is that the work of the ATP this week has been an absolute disgrace.

Two days ago I went to bed at four in the morning.

Yesterday [early Sunday morning], at five twenty.

Today [yesterday], on the court, I was angry because I had no coordination on my serve and my groundstrokes.

Even being fresh, I probably wouldn't have beaten him, but it would have been a better match," the German used as extenuating circumstances at a press conference.

His semifinal against

concluded at 1:10 a.m. on Sunday, almost five hours after Alcaraz defeated Djokovic.

To this we must add all the subsequent routines in high competition.

Without detracting from Alcaraz, and without ignoring the poor planning of the order of play, perhaps the tournament, which has celebrated its twentieth anniversary, deserved another opponent for him.

Since

won in Madrid in 2007, beating Djokovic, Nadal and Federer, no player had beaten three top-fours at a Masters 1000.

The fact did not go unnoticed by the protagonist, who mentioned it in the press room, accompanied by the champion's cup.

“I compete in everything.

With Juanqui [Juan Carlos Ferrero, his coach] golf, petanque.

I don't like losing at anything.

Now I still have to assimilate everything I'm living."

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