{"id":16357,"date":"2025-06-26T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16357\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:17:10","slug":"the-big-difference-between-carlos-alcaraz-and-novak-djokovic-has-been-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16357\/","title":{"rendered":"The big difference between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic has been identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wimbledon is just around the corner, and Carlos Alcaraz is preparing to make it a hat-trick of wins. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/french-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French Open<\/a> champion successfully defended that crown at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/roland-garros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> earlier this month, and now he will hope to do the same at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in last year\u2019s final, and the Serbian will perhaps be looking for retribution this year as he eyes a 25th major title. <\/p>\n<p>The two players are at opposite ends of their careers, but for the next fortnight, both will have their eyes firmly on the same prize. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2221482259-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz of Spain\" \/>Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesThe difference between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic identified<\/p>\n<p>Ronan Lafaix is a renowned mental coach, and he used to be on the ATP Tour, coaching the likes of Gilles Simon, Corentin Moutet and Stephane Robert. <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Wimbledon, he\u2019s shared what he loves about Alcaraz, and it\u2019s something that sets him beyond Djokovic. <\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/le10sport.com\/tennis\/exclu-tennis-je-navais-jamais-vu-ca-alcaraz-le-fait-halluciner-748308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Le Sport 10<\/a>: \u201cHe\u2019s very calm. That\u2019s his number one asset. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe impresses me enormously compared to Djokovic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s capable of hitting a lot of winning shots, which isn\u2019t the case for the Serb, who remains a huge player but with more \u2018normal\u2019 shots. Djokovic has worked a lot on himself, but I think that deep down, he is not totally serene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlcaraz, on the other hand, is incredibly calm, and his level of play defies textbooks. I saw shots I had never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz the man to beat at Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>Having won the last two SW19 titles and the recent French Open, it\u2019s fair to say that Alcaraz is the man with a target on his back. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> is waiting for his first Wimbledon crown, and he should go well again, but Djokovic can\u2019t be discounted. <\/p>\n<p>You have to go back to 2023 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> to find a Grand Slam won by the Serbian, and that is providing some concern over whether he can get to number 25. <\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will know that time is running out on his quest for another major and that could make him a dangerous proposition this year. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Lafaix is right. Nothing fazes Alcaraz at all and it feels very difficult to look beyond the Spaniard to win the title again this year. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon is just around the corner, and Carlos Alcaraz is preparing to make it a hat-trick of wins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,1466,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-16357","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114749862253874569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357","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=16357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}