Carlos Alcaraz comparison to Roger Federer at 21 years old speaks volumes about Spaniard

Carlos Alcaraz has the endowment to surpass Roger Federer's achievements successful tennis aft already winning 3 of the 4 Grand Slam with lone the Australian Open missing from his CV

Carlos Alcaraz has been told helium is simply a much implicit subordinate than Roger Federer astatine the aforesaid age.

The Spanish tennis sensation suffered disappointment astatine the Australian Open – the lone Grand Slam helium is acceptable to triumph – aft losing an epic quarter-final to 10-time champion Novak Djokovic. At 21, helium already has 4 Grand Slam titles successful the container aft winning Wimbledon connected 2 occasions, positive the French Open and US Open.

It surely won’t beryllium excessively galore much years until Alcaraz gets his hands connected the apical prize successful Melbourne. Federer was 21 erstwhile helium won his archetypal Grand Slam crown astatine Wimbledon successful 2003. At the aforesaid age, Alcaraz has already won Grand Slams connected 3 antithetic surfaces.

“To triumph connected grass, clay and hard tribunal astatine that property is extraordinary,” the Eurosport pundit told Relevo. “Carlos is 1 of the astir implicit players I've ever seen astatine that age. He's already much implicit than Federer astatine 21.

“He is by acold the astir breathtaking subordinate astatine the moment, and helium is idiosyncratic radical expect to beryllium successful the apical 3 for astatine slightest the adjacent decade.”

Asked what euphony helium would comparison Alcaraz to, the Swedish legend, 60, chose Queen. He explained: “There's a operation of things that erstwhile you perceive to Queen, you're like, ‘wow, what did they conscionable do? How tin you beryllium bully astatine this? How tin Freddie Mercury sing similar this and past sing similar that?’

"And for me, that's Carlos. It's not that Carlos tin bash each antithetic things, it's that helium does them astatine unexpected moments. Roger Federer could bash each things Carlos tin do, but with Federer it was each much predictable.”

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Wilander expects Alcaraz to vie for supremacy with existent world No.1 Jannik Sinner portion helium is definite Djokovic volition adhd to his tally of 24 Grand Slam titles. He added: “Going forward, I expect Carlos, Jannik Sinner and the others to bash what they did past year.

“I don't spot Novak [Djokovic] not winning something, but present it's truly astir the adjacent procreation of players. Alexander Zverev could besides triumph a large oregon two, truthful it volition beryllium a precise breathtaking year.”

Alcaraz volition person to ticker from afar arsenic Sinner faces Ben Shelton and Djokovic goes up against Zverev successful the past 4 successful Melbourne. Djokovic, 37, who present has Andy Murray successful his corner, has fittingness concerns aft suffering a limb injury.

“I person to measure the concern time erstwhile I aftermath up,” said Djokovic aft the Alcaraz lucifer which started Tuesday nighttime Melbourne clip but went beyond midnight.