'Carlos Alcaraz seems eager', says top journalist

Carlos Alcaraz clinched the US Open 2022

'Carlos Alcaraz seems eager', says top journalist

Borna Coric described Carlos Alcaraz as "absolutely incredible" and believes the 19-year-old Spaniard is here to stay. Alcaraz, who will have his birthday in May, is already a Grand Slam champion, as well as being the youngest number 1 in tennis history. "What he's doing is absolutely incredible. It's great for him to have such a good team around him. They know what they have to do to keep him at the same level, being number 1, or just being on top. He's an incredible player, an incredible talent, and I know he's a very, very good guy, I know him very well. I have no doubt that he will still be there. If you ask me about me, surely I couldn't have beaten him at that age," Coric told Arab News. When Coric was just 17 years old, in 2014, he introduced himself to the world of tennis, stunning Rafael Nadal in Basel. At a very young age, Coric achieved some remarkable results and began to think that everything would come easily to him. As a consequence, Coric wasn't working as hard and obviously wasn't making any progress. Coric, now 26 and more mature, won his first Masters title last summer after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Cincinnati final. "When he was world number 33 - probably in my prime I was 18, 19 years old - I wasn't able to deal with it. It got out of hand. I thought, it's going to be much, much easier. I thought, okay, now I'm in the top 30, and next year I'm going to be in the top 15, next year I'm going to be in the top five, and next year I'm going to be No. 1 or top three."

Brett Haber talks about Alcaraz

Carlos Alcaraz was recently commended by a well-known tennis journalist for outstanding achievements in his young career. "In Alcaraz, he looks like the real deal for anything that you can use to measure his success by, and the fact that the first one he got ended up being at the US Open, which, I don’t think that’s what people would have predicted, I think that’s a good sign that he’s the man for all seasons and all surfaces," he noted on the Court-side with Beilinson Tennis podcast. "He seems eager. He seems like a hard worker. He seems not to be taken by the trappings of having become No. 1. He seems to have his head on his shoulders. I mean, it’s really hard to know the truth of what goes on, but all signs point to ‘This guy is gonna be great’, and if he got (No. 1) as a teenager, that’s a good sign," Haber added.