Carlos Alcaraz’s trip in the tennis elite has only started, and what a way to start: 21 years, four Grand Slam titles, six of 1,000 Masters … The Murcian has all the ingredients to achieve his dream of sitting at the ‘Big Three’ table, but, but, but, but What price is willing to pay? That is just what tries to answer in In my waythe documentary produced by Netflix in which it shows the most personal face of the tennis player.
It is a trip with ‘Carlitos’ throughout his year 2024, the most important of his career, to which 20 minutes It has had exclusive access before its premiere this April 23. Three episodes that explain everything that tennis fans could not understand in a successful course … and also much suffering.
“My fear is to see tennis as an obligation“, It is the hard statement of Alcaraz that puts in tension any follower of the best tennis of the world. Joy, self -confidence, pure faith in impossible blows … that is what makes Alcaraz the star that is today and the revolution it represents in the circuit. Without his smile there are no miracles, his tennis vanis.
That feeling is the one who chases El Palmar’s tennis player now that everyone hopes that he reaches Nadal, Federer and Djokovic, all fans, journalists, former sportsmen … They forget that he is just a 21 -year -old boy subject to a fierce daily pressure that leads him to play his mental and physical health every week.
From tears to euphoria
The exclusive images of the documentary show the most human, sunk and in tears when, in a training, the pain in his arm forces him to give up participating in the Conde de Godó trophy of Barcelona. A mental battle that also explains its defeat against Rublev at the Mutua Madrid Open When the game seemed on track.
But it also teaches Carlos’s most real face in the euphoria moments of a boy capable of lifting Roland Garros just weeks after recovering from the injury: “Today is dinner in glass!” Euphoric says before the cameras after winning the title.
And it is that Alcaraz teaches in his documentary the same as in the press conferences, events and in the matches, bursts of pure naturalness. Thus, he does not hide his pleasure to enjoy life, something not at odds with professionalism for him: “I went partying to Ibiza and then won in Queen’s and Wimbledon, I do not say that I win for the party, but I am one of those who, if things go wellI think we must repeat, “he recalls about the double success of 2023.
Of course, the “I want to do things in my way” by Carlos collides frontally with the work philosophy that tries to instill Juan Carlos Ferrero, a man who has already passed that path much earlier: “His understanding of work and ours is very different, so much so much that even It generates doubts about whether it can be the best in history“He points out.
Carlos Alcaraz touches background
In that dilemma a story is also installed focused on another of the most important moments of the race – and the life – by Carlos Alcaraz: the Olympic Games in Paris with Rafa Nadal. “It fell hard that this illusion of winning with Rafa vanishedthat this possibility will cease to exist, “recalls an alcaraz squeezed to the fullest to get an individual medal taken by Djokovic.
“That day, Carlos touches back”, He assures his manager Albert Molina without hesitation while the tennis player’s images appear in the postpartid interview with Corretja sunk in a sea of tears.
After that, his career would be marked forever. Some images of Spanish bursting the racket against the ground in the masters 1,000 of Cincinnati would turn the world and make social networks explode with criticism. “I had no mental strength to endure. I was losing the illusion, I thought that going to the tournament to play so it was better not to go and not play. It was a hard time “remember with the broken voice and tears in the eyes.
Nadal’s advice and the great doubt of his career
In the end, it summarizes everything in the same phrase that we have heard from his mouth several times in recent weeks: “I do not want them to tell me that I am Rafa Nadal’s successor, it is unnecessary, I want Carlos Alcaraz Garfia to be called.” Precisely, Carlos makes a motto of the words that Nadal himself offers in the documentary: “You have to feel that it is worth what you do, if you are not going to burn”.
Happiness is already a success
“My dream is to be one of the best in history, yes; sit at the ‘Big Three’ table, yes; deal with everything and do everything that entails being the best in history … Don’t know. I have lived very little and I have a lot left. Happiness is already successful and it is very difficult to find it, “culminates in a doubt that tries to solve day by day on and off the track.
