{"id":111040,"date":"2025-08-01T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111040\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:27:14","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-states-what-he-does-not-want-tennis-fans-to-say-about-him-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111040\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz states what he does not want tennis fans to say about him any more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz is well on his way to becoming one of the greatest tennis players of all time, with five Grand Slam titles to his name already, at the age of just 22. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Until Wimbledon<\/a> this year, the Spaniard had never lost in a major final, emerging victorious in five consecutive championship matches from 2022 to 2025 before Alcaraz lost to Jannik Sinner<\/a> at the All England Club. <\/p>\n

He has already tallied a quarter of Roger Federer<\/a>\u2018s Grand Slam total, and could very well surpass the Swiss legend, as well as his old rivals, Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Novak Djokovic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The idea of emulating the success of the \u2018big three\u2019 is one Alcaraz<\/a> chooses not to pay too much thought to, however. <\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz says he tries not to think about the pressure on him<\/p>\n

In an interview with Financial Times<\/a>, the world number two said: \u201cTennis has always had great rivalries and great players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege that people look at our games that way, with such enthusiasm, but in the end we have no obligation to do what they have done, far from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t stay strong in your ideals, in what you want, that pressure can eat you. You have to know how to differentiate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try not to think about any pressure, and least of all about doing what they did. I don\u2019t want people to call me Rafa\u2019s successor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Visionhaus via Getty ImagesHow Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s Grand Slam tally stacks up against Open Era greats<\/p>\n

Not many tennis players in history have managed in their careers what Alcaraz has done in just a few years.<\/p>\n

Since turning professional in 2018, the young star has captured two Wimbledon championships, a pair of Roland Garros titles, and a US Open crown. <\/p>\nGrand Slam TitlesPlayer(s)<\/tr>\n\n24<\/td>\nNovak Djokovic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n22<\/td>\nRafael Nadal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n20<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n14<\/td>\nPete Sampras<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n11<\/td>\nBjorn Borg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n8<\/td>\nJimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Andre Agassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n7<\/td>\nJohn McEnroe, Mats Wilander<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n6<\/td>\nStefan Edberg, Boris Becker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n5<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz, Rod Laver, John Newcombe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Players with the most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era<\/p>\n

He has already collected more majors than greats such as Andy Murray<\/a>, Stan Wawrinka, and Jim Courier, and has equalled the Open Era totals of Rod Laver and John Newcombe. <\/p>\n

At the pace he\u2019s going, as long as Alcaraz stays relatively injury-free, the sky is the limit for both him and his rival, Sinner<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz is well on his way to becoming one of the greatest tennis players of all time,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,1466,3886,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-rafael-nadal","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955160534730493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}