Carlos Alcaraz may be coming off back-to-back Grand Slam wins, but he still has a lot of respect for Rafael Nadal ahead of the Paris Olympics, emphasising that he will have to listen to the other viewpoint.
Alcaraz, 21, has been on fire in the previous two months, having won the French Open and Wimbledon to bring his total to four Grand Slam championships. Now, Alcaraz’s next ambition is to perform well in his Olympic debut, where he will compete in both the singles and doubles events with Nadal.”Not much.” He is likewise doing his thing, and we are doing ours. We communicate very little, but when we go to the Games, we’ll chat about the doubles and, most importantly, how we’re going to accomplish it,” Alcaraz told ABC Sports.
Alcaraz: I’m the newbie; I’ll listen to Nadal.
Nadal, 38, will make his fourth and last Olympic participation. Nadal has already enjoyed great success on the Olympic stage, winning a singles gold medal in Beijing in 2008 and a doubles gold medal with Marc Lopez in Rio in 2016.
And, while Nadal hasn’t won a trophy since the 2022 French Open, owing to serious injury concerns, he still has an impressive Olympic CV, for which Alcaraz has nothing but admiration and respect.
“I am not nervous right now. I’ll be ready when the time comes. And, of course, he’s already had this experience; he knows what it’s like to compete in the Olympics and win gold medals in both singles and doubles. “I’m new, the rookie here, so I have to keep my mouth shut and just listen to him,” Alcaraz explained.
Alcaraz took a break last week after winning Wimbledon. On the other hand, Nadal ended as runner-up in Bastad, and he also reached They handed a walkover to Orlando Luz and Rafael Matos because the Spaniard wanted to recover for the singles final.
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