Carlito’s Way. So Alcaraz took over the “old men’s” tennis

We will avoid writing “handover”, “tennis has a new king”, “the sky is yellow-red over London”. Because Carlos Alcaraz’s victory at Wimbledon deserves better. Only those who Carlitos hadn’t seen him arrive in time thought he was a “normal” player. So when on Sunday he found himself serving at 5-4 in the fifth set to take home the tournament in front of Novak Djokovic, thousands of cravated fans, the royal boxmany have naively thought of the precedent of 2019: the Serbian who comes back Roger Federer, cancels two match points, practically ending his career. But no, Alcaraz had that haste that only Martians have. Not that of improving oneself according to standards and stages and progressive improvements, but of imposing one’s own standards and times.