Since Alcaraz joined the ATP Tour as a 16-year-old, he has been lauded for the number of his play, having the ability to mix reducing low slices with ferocious forehands and deft drop pictures to constantly catch opponents off guard and win factors in breathtaking methods.
However his capacity to sew collectively that type of all-around high quality on any floor is what’s already setting him other than anyone else.
Alcaraz has now received two Grand Slams on every of the exhausting, grass, and clay surfaces – solely Rafael Nadal (when aged 24), Mats Wilander (aged 24), and Novak Djokovic (aged 34), have ever achieved the identical feat within the males’s sport.
The velocity at which Alcaraz is racking up the majors is astonishing, too – he has taken solely 19 tournaments to win six slams, second solely to the document of 18 set by Bjorn Borg in 1978.
Solely Borg has received six slams at a youthful age than Alcaraz, doing so by profitable three on clay at Roland Garros and three on grass at Wimbledon.
At 22 Nadal additionally had six (however received the final of these when he was a number of months older than Alcaraz), whereas Pete Sampras was on 5, and Wilander 4.
The likes of eight-time Wimbledon winner Roger Federer (three) and 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic (one) had been approach behind the tempo of Alcaraz at his age.
