Tennis - Wimbledon 2024 - Carlos Alcaraz : " I want to sit at the same table as the big guys"
Carlos Alcaraz est définitivement dans la cour des grands. Tenant du titre à Wimbledon, l'Espagnol a conservé son titre ce dimanche en éclatant Novak Djokovic en trois petits sets (6-2, 6-2, 7-6(4)). Une performance impressionnante, face à un Djokovic qui ne semblait pas au mieux de sa forme, lui qui revient d'une blessure au ménisque, et a été opéré avant le tournoi. Monté en puissance au fil de la quinzaine, Alcaraz a remporté ce dimanche son 2e titre sur le gazon londonien, son 4e en Grand Chelem après l'US Open 2022, Wimbledon 2023 et Roland-Garros 2024.
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00:00Carlos, you've defended your title. Does it feel as good as the first time?
00:07Yes. Yeah, I feel it was the first one. It is an amazing feeling for me, being the champion here in Wimbledon back-to-back.
00:19Yeah, I mean, it is great. So I'm really proud and really happy about it.
00:28Congratulations, Carlos. You've got the Champions Ball now, which will probably clash with the football.
00:34How are you going to watch it? Is it going to be on your phone? Are you going to ask the All England Club to put it on for you?
00:39Well, I have the dinner, you know, the dinner that all the winners have after all.
00:49But yeah, I will watch it for sure on the phone. The first half, the second half, I will watch it on the TV over there.
00:55I can't miss it. So it's going to be a really big moment for the Spanish people.
01:02So I have to stay there as they were watching my final. I have to watch their final and support them.
01:11Hey Carlos, congratulations. How does this one feel different than last year?
01:17Last year was such a crazy match and then this one so dominant. But how did you experience this feeling?
01:27Well, honestly, as I say, it is a great feeling. Obviously, it was a great match for me.
01:38Obviously, Novak didn't play at his best in the first two sets. A lot of mistakes. So I made the most of that.
01:46And yeah, it is a great feeling even thinking about being French Open winner and Wimbledon champion the same year
02:00that the few players just done it before. So it's unbelievable. I try to realize that I won Wimbledon twice
02:09and try to feel that it was the same feeling as last year.
02:14Howard?
02:16Hi Carlos. There are a lot of statistics and facts about you being the youngest this and the youngest that
02:24and only this many guys by your age have done this or that. Do you take any pride in any of that?
02:32Or does none of that matter to you and all you think about is trying to keep adding to the achievements that you've done?
02:41Well, obviously, I've seen and I've heard all the stats that I am the youngest to win at Roland-Garros
02:53and Wimbledon the same year, to win whatever. Honestly, I try not to think about it too much.
03:01Obviously, it's a really great start of my career, but I have to keep going. I have to keep building my path.
03:10At the end of my career, I want to sit at the same table as the big guys. So that's my main goal. That's my dream right now.
03:20It doesn't matter if I've already won four Grand Slams at the age of 21. If I don't keep going, these tournaments, for me, it doesn't matter.
03:37So I really want to keep going. I will try to keep winning and end my career with a lot of them.
03:50Carlos, Roger, Rafa, Nova, none of them won four titles before the age of 22 and your career is on this trajectory.
03:59What do you be satisfied with? How many titles do you want? 25, 30? What do you want to be satisfied with?
04:06Well, right now, yeah, as I said, I'm really happy with the work that I'm doing with my team.
04:14I'm really proud of myself. All the things that I'm doing are great. I'm really proud of my people around my team.
04:22Everything that we have done already has been unbelievable. An amazing journey so far.
04:30So, as I said, I really want to keep going, to keep improving, to keep growing up, try to keep winning.
04:38That's all that matters for me right now. I don't know. What is my limit? I don't want to think about it.
04:49I just want to keep enjoying my moment, just to keep dreaming.
04:57So, let's see if at the end of my career it's going to be 25, 30, 15, 4.
05:04I don't know. All I want to say is that I want to keep enjoying and let's see what the future brings to me.
05:15Before the tournament, you said Novak was Superman. What are your thoughts about whether you're Superman now?
05:23Well, I mean, I'm still believing that Novak is Superman.
05:28Because what he has done in this tournament with a surgery just a few weeks before the tournament began, it is amazing.
05:36It is unbelievable. So, honestly, as I said on court, I was talking to my team.
05:45You know, the work that Novak has done has been unbelievable and put himself the chance to be able to play the tournament.
05:55And making the final is something out of this world for me.
06:01So, I beat him today, but for me, Novak is still being like Superman.
06:09Carlos, Jason Gay with the Wall Street Journal.
06:12Tell me, where are you getting better and where are areas that you want to improve?
06:17Novak said today he'd never seen you serve that way.
06:20He said he hadn't been paying close attention all tournament and maybe you'd been serving that way all tournament.
06:25But he noticed a perceptible improvement there.
06:28Where are areas that you think you can continue to grow?
06:32Well, yeah, as I said, you know, the first match I had a really poor serve game.
06:41So, I knew that I have to be better on that.
06:44The days off, I was practicing the serve.
06:48I was really focused on the serve just to be better.
06:50And, you know, I think I got better in every match that I was playing.
06:55Really glad that I had this serve game today.
07:00Because it was a really, you know, main weapon that I put in today's match.
07:09So, I'm really pleased about it.
07:12Yeah, I have to keep improving everything, I guess.
07:16You know, my forehand can be, you know, at this level, I think it can be better.
07:26So, every year should be better.
07:29But I think my game in general, I think I can improve it.
07:35And, you know, deal with the situations I can't stop like this one.
07:40I have to keep growing up and keep improving.
07:44Elena.
07:45Hi, Carlos.
07:46Elena Crooksham Press Association.
07:48You and Yannick have won all the Grand Slams this year so far between you.
07:53So, are the young guys in total charge now?
07:57Well, yeah.
08:00As I said, I think being over there with Yannick, 21 years old, 22, 23 years old,
08:07in the top of the ranking, winning the Grand Slams.
08:11I think it's good for tennis to have new faces winning the big things
08:18and fighting for the big tournaments.
08:22I'm really glad to have him there.
08:26As I said many times, we have a really good rivalry.
08:30And many young players are coming up fighting for these things as well.
08:36So, I think it's great for the sport, for tennis, and I think for the players as well.
08:44Tim Emerson, Forbes.
08:47When you lost to Daniel Bregman at the US Open,
08:51you said, maybe I need to mature a bit more, I'm not ready.
08:55Do you feel like you're getting to that place now?
08:57Because you seem to peak in this tournament after you lost the first set to Tommy Paul.
09:02You seem to just fly after that.
09:06Yeah, I learned a lot from that match against Daniel in the US Open in 2023.
09:13I had to be better.
09:17I had to grow up and be more mature in that situation.
09:24I gave up a little bit.
09:26I remember perfectly, I gave up a little bit in the second set after losing the first one.
09:32It's something that is unacceptable, playing in the Grand Slams.
09:39So, I knew that these things can't happen again.
09:44It helped me a lot coming to the next Grand Slams, next tournaments,
09:51to be better in the mental side, to be strong enough,
09:55to play my best tennis in the close and difficult situations.
10:01I'm here right now thanks to these kind of situations that I learned about.
10:13Carlos, it's the first time you win a Grand Slam final in three sets.
10:17Pretty easily, if I should say.
10:19The previous one was big battles.
10:21Did you feel at some point during the warm-up, the preparation this morning,
10:25that it was your day, that it was different from the last times, the previous times?
10:29Yes, I did it a little bit different than last year.
10:33I felt like I wasn't new anymore.
10:36I've been in this situation before.
10:39What I did wrong last year, I tried not to repeat it or to be better on that side.
10:49Yesterday, I was calmer than last year, for example.
10:55I tried not to think about the match or just a few moments, watching some videos.
11:01But apart from that, I tried not to think about it.
11:04Today, I think I did a really good warm-up.
11:09Just one hour and a half, one hour before the match, I started to feel the nerves.
11:14But before that, I was really calm.
11:21That helped me a lot coming to the match.
11:25I managed pretty well the match.
11:29Remembering that last year's final, it was pretty different things.
11:36Much better for me.