By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, October 5, 2024
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Stumbling via a disappointing American summer season hard-court season, Carlos Alcaraz is flying excessive in China this fall.
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Beijing champion Alcaraz swept proficient Chinese language Juncheng Shang 6-3, 6-2 in his Rolex Shanghai Masters opener.
It was Alcaraz’s tenth consecutive victory.
Haunted by the emotional hangover of falling within the Olympic gold-medal match to Novak Djokovic in Paris, Alcaraz was upset by Gael Monfils in his Cincinnati opener earlier than bowing to Botic van de Zandschulp in a US Open second spherical shocker.
Since then, Alcaraz has received 19 of 21 units he is performed in his 10-match profitable streak.
“I feel I am feeling nice on the court docket, bodily I am feeling good,” Alcaraz advised the media in Shanghai. “For me, for my tennis, it is actually vital to really feel that approach. I am hitting the ball actually, very well as properly, so I am making an attempt to be the identical approach within the matches.”
The reigning Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion attributes his fall rise to 2 easy causes: He is feeling good bodily and he is reconnected with the enjoyment of enjoying.
“I am a man that tries to maintain the constructive issues. For instance, within the American swing, it did not go as I anticipated, so I had extra time to organize properly this a part of the season,” Alcaraz mentioned. “I had some weeks that I actually labored, I put in actually good work bodily on the court docket as properly, simply to really feel nice coming to this event.
“I feel that is the distinction, and that is why I am displaying actually good tennis, as a result of bodily I am feeling nice and, , I am simply making an attempt to have pleasure and luxuriate in my time on the court docket, enjoying good factors, enjoying good rallies, and the best way that I am hitting the ball is sort of good recently.”