Alcaraz new service motion

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LOL@rankings
Nobody cares about rankings when you have 4 slam titles by age 21 :-D
He's the greatest 21-year-old ever, and I don't see anyone stopping him at RG or Wimbledon 2025 either...
Greatest 22-year-old ever, and winning AO 2025 makes him the youngest career slammer ever!
Zverev is ranked #2, and his career achievements won't even match Alcaraz's 2024...
But what does it have to do with the fact that he is the greatest 21-year-old in history?

Alcaraz has not yet dominated a season which is his goal.
After the Olympics he said that his goal was to close the season at number 1 in the world and he failed miserably.

The past has nothing to do with it, if Alcaraz does not progress especially on serve he will be destined to always remain behind the current Sinner in the economy of a season.
And also the fact that you think that even in 2025 in the majors on natural surfaces he has no rivals also I think you will encounter unpleasant surprises.
Tennis is fluid not static, if you do not progress you will fall behind.
 

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Sinner and Alcaraz are about to land in Australia for the canonical start of the new season. Jannik left Nice for Melbourne: the world no. 1 will arrive tomorrow “down under” and has chosen not to play any pre-Australian Open tournaments, focusing on training until December 31st, and then warming up the engine for the title defense in the events of the week that opens the first major of the season (he will play two exhibitions, with Popyrin on Tuesday and then Tsitsipas on Friday). Carlos Alcaraz has made a similar choice, about to leave Ferrero’s Academy and land in Australia. Two interesting pieces of news about the youngest no. 1 in history have arrived from Spain. According to the newspaper Marca, Alcaraz has been working on a new service mechanic and materials in recent weeks, convincing himself to use a slightly heavier frame to produce even more powerful shots.

Not a big difference, we are talking about 5 grams, which however can represent a different configuration for weight distribution, impact effort and sensations. As Samuel Lopez, new entry in Carlos' team, explained, "It's another help to hit harder. With the acceleration he has in his shots, he will gain in power and weight of the ball.
Given its impact quality, with a racket with more weight, by hitting the ball early you can better exploit the force of how it comes to you. It is becoming very noticeable these days, especially in response”. The 5 grams were placed in the neutral part of the frame, so as not to change the general balance; it is the most used method when you want to change but not overturn.
Tennis players are often very wary of changing racket and string configurations, but the off-season is the ideal time to test something new. From Lopez's words it seems that Carlos was satisfied with the novelty, so much so that he immediately tried it in a Slam.

The other novelty concerns the service movement, in particular the racket loading phase. After weeks of training in Spain at the Academy of Villena and partly in the USA, Alcaraz has refined the service movement in search of a more fluid gesture, eliminating the moment of pause in the arm when it passes backwards to load the impact towards the ball. A more continuous push that should help him find more confidence and maybe even speed. In the short clip that we report – dated December 29 – you can actually see how Alcaraz’s racket when it goes back for the loading no longer stops as in the past, and how the frame performs a swing that is not only faster but also less wide, quickly rising upwards.


 
But what does it have to do with the fact that he is the greatest 21-year-old in history?

Alcaraz has not yet dominated a season which is his goal.
After the Olympics he said that his goal was to close the season at number 1 in the world and he failed miserably.

The past has nothing to do with it, if Alcaraz does not progress especially on serve he will be destined to always remain behind the current Sinner in the economy of a season.
And also the fact that you think that even in 2025 in the majors on natural surfaces he has no rivals also I think you will encounter unpleasant surprises.
Tennis is fluid not static, if you do not progress you will fall behind.
Wrong :rolleyes:
His goal is to win the AO, its all he talks about!
BTW he's already won the year-end-#1 in 2022...
And Alcaraz already progressed on his serve, 136mph in the Wimbledon Final, and undefeated vs. Sinner in 2024.
Sinner is destined to NEVER win a non-hardcourt slam...
 

jm1972

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Wrong :rolleyes:
His goal is to win the AO, its all he talks about!
BTW he's already won the year-end-#1 in 2022...
And Alcaraz already progressed on his serve, 136mph in the Wimbledon Final, and undefeated vs. Sinner in 2024.
Sinner is destined to NEVER win a non-hardcourt slam...

Remember before Beijing final these Muppets were SO confident... LOL...

3-0 in Sinner's incredible year :-D
 
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