Carlos Alcaraz is ambitious. The Spanish tennis player will finish 2025 as world number one, he hopes to add the ATP Finals to his booty as the culmination of a great season… and he is already looking to the future with a desire to continue making history, as he demonstrated in an interview with Spanish radio station Cope.
Adding more Grand Slams: “I can sit at the table with Nadal, Federer and Djokovic. If I didn’t think that I wouldn’t have goals, I wouldn’t have ambition, I wouldn’t have anything. That’s a goal at the end of my career: to see that I can sit at that table with them and that people think that I can sit at their table at the end of my career. I think I can do it. It’s important to have ambition, to have goals, and I think I can get there.”
“I have always admired Nadal and he always lent me a hand and supported me. To be able to talk to him now as if he were a friend, for me it means everything. I have asked him for advice on certain issues and he has always been there. For me, a kid who started his career, to have Rafa and that he always lent me a hand and supported me, my team and I have always been grateful and we will always be grateful. As the years have gone by we have had more relationship and to be able to talk now face to face, as if he were a friend, for me it means everything.”
World number one: “The truth is that this is what the ranking shows. But I’m not the best player in terms of tennis or level, because there are still many players who can beat me and I’ve lost to many players. I’m not the best, but the ranking does show that.”
Challenges for next year: “In 2026 I prefer to win Australia only instead of two repeated Grand Slams. I sign 23 Grand Slams without thinking about it, right now. Yes, I want to be the one who wins the most, I want to beat Djokovic, but 23… No joke.”
Working his way: “What I’m most proud of is being the best in the world at doing things my way, whether they turn out well or badly. That no one forces me to be the way people want me to be. I’m afraid of living a life I don’t want.”
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