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"Carlos Alcaraz Ranking"
So King
Carlos is here. He has officially arrived at the top of the men's game, and
it's unbelievable. It hasn't happened and as long as I can remember to just
watch somebody have the most hype possible in tennis, and then just follow it
up and make it to the destination as quickly as Carlos has. absolutely
unbelievable. Wins the US Open 2022, is number one in the world now. And the sky's
the limit. Juan Carlos his coach said that,” he still can improve basically
every aspect of his game, and I believe him”. so amazing. Where does he go from
here? We're going to talk about the number one ranking. First, we're going to
talk about how the match went. Caspar Ruud played Great. was an amazing match.
We're going to break that down. Then we're going to talk about where does the
number one go from here? Does he keep it when Djokovic comes back to the full
schedule, and I'm going to discuss does is Carlos Alcaraz and center in this
generation better than Tsitsipas is very of that generation, or are they just
in a slightly easier time we're going to break that down as well. as obviously Iga
Świątek as well taking Ons Jabeur for her third slam. First one on a hardcourt.
Absolutely amazing Iga show is back on the road. Here's the don breaking all
that down. Let's get into it
Carlos Alcaraz
crazy stats
some stats for you guys. I'm sure you've heard all these stats before. But if you haven't, this is what happened yesterday. Carlos Alcaraz has won the US Open becoming the youngest world number one of all time. on the men's side. the youngest Slam winner since Rafa in 2005. He spent in his run to the title this year, the longest time spent on court in a major victory ever. So, you can say it was the most physical major victory ever. Just absolutely nuts. He's 19 years old. in 2021, even 2020 people were really hyping him up in 2020. That's when I first kind of had eyes on him. And then last year people like he's the future. You know, I remember when he took Tsitsipas out in US open 2021, People are going nuts now. He wins Miami earlier this year. He wins Madrid. Barcelona people are thinking When's he going to win his first slam? Well, we have our answer Now he won his first slam in the 2022 US Open in pretty amazing fashion. three five set matches before the final, just crazy
Carlos Alcaraz
lives up to the hype?
All the hype, like I said has proven to be legit. How rare is it in tennis that we have over incredibly hyped somebody up as teenagers 17, 18-year-old and then they immediately deliver on that that's just so rare, because tennis is such an individual pressure filled sport where pressure is such a hard thing for younger players to overcome. And Carlos has overcome it. He absolutely was one of the top favorites coming into this tournament.
He was crazily a Top Favorite coming to the French Open even Wimbledon and now he's won the US Open basically in his third major or he's had like some amount of expectation to win it. so he's done it more quickly than basically anyone else since Rafa and just really unbelievable. I found myself I found it unreal that I had so much belief in Carlos to come through each match that he came through. Whether that was I guess Cilic was down in a break in the fist that I was just like, I know he's going to break back and come back breakdown and that's what he did when he was down. Even set point or match points to center as is I don't think this is over. You know when he was down in Tiafoe, I just feel he's going to figure it out the mental fortitude that he has at 19 years old to just lock in and figure these things out. It's just absolutely ridiculous and special. So, he's amazing. I could go on forever.
Alcaraz vs
Ruud: final match analysis
So, Ruud versus Alcaraz the final match. People are saying no, there's no big stars. They're stars. If you watched that tennis match and you were not satisfied, I don't think you really like tennis actually. Carlos versus Casper was amazing. Great rallies, Casper played really well. And that third set was absolutely pivotal, obviously, but if you remember I did predict shout out to myself. Carlos to win and four sets. And that's what happened. But one of the main points that said it was Casper Ruud has a serving advantage in my opinion, and he did over Carlos so that's going to be one area where he has an edge, but what ended up happening was Carlos won the serving battle. By the stats he had 14 Aces with the lot for him, he got 64% of his first serve and compared to 61 for rude, he won 74% of his first serve compared to 66 for Casper, so they made more of an impact and he hit it better as well. So as a huge advantage for Carlos’s kind of taking away that the only real edge that I saw Casper having that was big. I was also interested to see how aggressive Ruud would be able to be because he loves to run around that for forehead and hit it anywhere but inside and is a big shock for him to really kind of go against the grain. I remember early in the first set; I think he did that he went inside and up the line and Carlos got out to it as quick as he did and just ripped it forehand across court and that kind of exposed Ruud so put them a little bit on the back foot but I don't think Ruud game plan was to try and blitz Carlos. His game plan was to play aggressive when it was there, obviously, but make it super physical because everyone was talking about coming into this, how tired is Carlos going to be? Et cetera, et cetera. And I think he was clearly tired in that match in different parts. It showed more than others but Casper was trying to make this really physical and make it a dogfight which it was if people were pointing out Casper seems to be winning a lot more of like super long gruelling rallies, and he was playing amazing had the great play the best net game I've ever seen from him. He finished off points he hit passing shots. He was just Casper Ruud is honestly amazing. And he had set points in the third set two of them on Carlos to serve and if you want that third set, I would have given the big advantage I think to Casper but didn't happen. He played a bad tiebreaker as he said.
But yeah, Carlos was nervous at certain points. Casper was clearly nervous to certain points, but for the most part, I think they both rose up and gave us like an amazing final with amazing tennis better tennis for sure, Than Djokovic vs Medvedev last year, definitely better than 2020 between team and Zverev. So, it was a fantastic final to watch. Carlos came to net 45 times if you listen to the Juan Carlos for his coach, press conference, he talks about how are they he was asked why Carlos came to the net so much and if that was just part of the game plan and Carlos, Juan Carlos said,” he had lost Alcaraz and lost some of the joy out there. He likes to come forward. He likes to be ultra-aggressive. I think he enjoys playing. So, he told us to be free and come to the net on every short ball”, which is his quote. So, he pretty much did that last night, winning 76% of the time when he came to the net, so I couldn't feel who had more pressure on them. Like you know, Carlos was the Favorite coming in. So, I guess he technically had more pressure on him. But Casper is the older player. It's his second Slam final. He doesn't want to lose again to someone who's 19 or to anyone in the final obviously so I think they both actually handled the pressure very well and played well. and Casper played well too, I’m just sad for him. He almost won. Like I said he was right there. But King Carlos came through.
For how long
Carlos will be #1
So King
Carlos, how long will he reign? That's my question, because I don't know all
the breakdowns. could Rafa come back? It depends on his schedule for the rest
of the year. Can he overtake Carlos this year? Maybe? What happens if Djokovic
is allowed to play hopefully for majors next year and play in the States for
you know, Indian wills or Miami? Is Carlos going to stay the number one then?
That's a big question.
In my opinion, 2023 is going to be super interesting. We got the Djokovic and Nadal you know goat still on the prowl. I'm sure they're not done winning slams, you know Rafa, maybe but you know, it just seems like he's like on default going to win Roland Garros for the rest of his life. Australian Open is going to come around hopefully Djokovic will be able to play. And then we got sinner. Felix and musette Also from kind of like the Alcaraz class. They're going to be there and then we got Zverev, Tsitsipas, Medvedev team coming back trying to show that hey, we're not done yet. We've in that group of four, they've won two slams in the last three years. But you know, Tsitsipas and Zverev haven't won slams yet, and Carlos Alcaraz has so that's a big thing, I think going into 2023. So that leads me to my next question is Carlos better than Tsitsipas?
Is Carlos
better than Tsitsipas or Zverev?
This is where have or is this just an easier time to break through and win a slam than it was when they were trying at the first you know, in 2019, 2021, 2020 area? I think it's a bit about Yes, Carlos is the new kid on the block. I think we have a recency bias. Of course, when he's the newest guy coming up and obviously the level and the talent in which he has, you can you can definitely see that he's built different than all the other younger guys his age. As far as is he built better than like, I got to Tsitsipas who I've always been very highly touted on. I don't know I think I think he has a more complete game obviously but that's mostly because the two handed backhand but I think also Tsitsipas and Zverev were trying to break through when Djokovic, Nadal and even Federer were still playing at top level or just playing in general top level, winning slams. they were playing some of their best tennis. this year Nadal you know, he's won two slams, but I don't think he's played his best tennis much most of the year.
Djokovic wasn't allowed to play us open so I think it is easier for Carlos to win slams and this is not taking anything away from what he did. But he didn't have to play Djokovic or Nadal to win this slam and Tsitsipas you know, two sets to love up in the French Open final last year playing Djokovic that's a lot tougher than playing Casper Ruud or Francis Tiafoe or Jannick sinner to be honest. So, I don't want to disrespect that last generation at all yet. Let's see how it plays out. Let's see is Tsitsipas and Zverev come back in 2023 and say no, we're still here and they beat Carlos in these major tournaments when they play hopefully in like the quarterfinals semi-finals etc. We'll see what happens but I'm not ready to write them off yet. I do think it's slightly you know, the big three are constantly dropping now I think it's just a drop in level and in stamina and how much they're playing. The so you know back here Tsitsipas was playing them at a higher level than they are now. But that doesn't take anything away from Carlos. So, we'll see 2023 I think he's just going to be amazing for the men's game. And we'll see who can rise to the top and see if someone is going to knock off Carlos off because honestly, he can stay the number one for like a long time here. If he just keeps fighting the way that he has. So that's absolutely amazing.
Iga Świątek wins The US Open on the women's side. I predicted it. She's going to beat Ons Jabeur because of these courts and because of how powerful Iga was. She was on she was not going to be able to get big on the back foot and it looks like from what I saw, Ons Jabeur was trying to do that was trying to play big and then she just was missing too much and not consistent enough. And anchor was and she played that suffocating defence she does and she has an easy power and she was just too good on the day. So that's her third slam her first one off of the French clay so they Iga show is back on the road. She's clear number one on the women's tour. Absolutely. And huge couple weeks in her for New York figuring out her game, getting to the top and be able to win another slam so she's the dominant player on the WTA for sure. And Carlos is you can say the dominant not the dominant number one because he's like one of the lowest points ever but he's the number one player in the world as a 19-year-old he just won the US Open absolutely incredible.
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