El espa�ol Carlos Alcaraz He trained for two hours with the Italian Flavio Cobolli before participating in an exhibition and ahead of Wimbledon he warned: “I’m here to do the same result as last year“.
The Murcian player made 45 minutes of warm-up this Friday with Cobolli before playing two intense sets against the Italian who was hot to compete after being eliminated in the Eastbourne quarterfinals the previous day.
After the exercises, also marked by the change in temperature in London, colder and windier this Friday than the rest of the week, Alcaraz attended an event by his racket supplier, Babolat, in which he participated � in a kind of exhibition with members of the nearby Wimbledon Club, adjacent to the tournament.
The Spaniard did a couple of interviews with international television before joining a rally in which members of the club and other players sponsored by Babolat alternated, as Cameron Norrie, Karolina Pliskova, Holger Rune, Camila Osorio, Arthur Fils, Sofia Kenin and Jordan Thomspon.
I feel like I no longer have any injuries, that I can hit him freely.
Afterwards, the Spaniard attended to the rest of the press and cleared up the condition of his right forearm, which weighed him down during the clay court tour.
“I feel like I no longer have any injuries, that I can hit him freely. I can hit it 100% without thinking about it. We’ve done a great job on it. The dirt season has been difficult, but I haven’t felt any pain anymore“, ventured the Spaniard, who found out his fate in the tournament draw this Friday.
He will debut against Mark Lajal, 262 in the world and with no matches played in a Grand Slam, and then he will have a more or less simple draw until a quarterfinal against Tommy Paul and a semifinal against Jannik Sinner. He will avoid Novak Djokovic until the final.
“I’m here to do the same result as last year“said Alcaraz, who will have the honor of inaugurating the center court this Monday as the current champion of the tournament.
