Editor’s Note: This article was translated from ATPTour.com/es.
Fans of each tennis and motor racing are of their component this week within the Hard Rock Stadium.
When coming into the venue for the Miami Open offered by Itau, spectators should move by a couple of sectors of the road circuit the place the second Miami Grand Prix will happen on 7 May. This partly explains why Carlos Alcaraz has Formula 1 on his thoughts. However, the primary cause is Spanish driver Fernando Alonso.
“33 –> Soon,” wrote Carlitos on the TV digicam after his win over Tommy Paul on Tuesday within the final sixteen of the second Masters 1000 of the yr. He defined the which means of the message in his post-match press convention.
“I’m spurring ‘Fer’ on to see if he can get his 33rd win in Australia,” he mentioned with a smile. “To me it’s crazy what he’s doing at his age. He’s basically in the fight for the Formula 1 World Championship. It’s great to have him there.”
Fernando Alonso claimed his thirty second win on the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix, when Alcaraz had simply celebrated his tenth birthday and was nonetheless unacquainted with the world of Formula 1. But the Spanish driver has made the rostrum within the first two races of the yr in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The 41-year-old’s want for an additional win is burning as sturdy as ever.
Alcaraz is certain to be glued to the TV cheering him on. Maybe Alonso’s sturdy runs will encourage him to say one other ATP Tour title. Just two weeks in the past, Alonso completed third on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on the identical day that Alcaraz claimed the BNP Paribas Open and returned to No. 1 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
“You motivated me for the Indian Wells final! You’re an animal!” Alcaraz wrote on one in all Alonso’s Instagram posts.
Alonso, a two-time World Champion (2005, 2006), is liable for Alcaraz’s current Formula 1 fever.
“I have to admit that I’ve never been particularly interested in it, but Fernando has made me into a Formula 1 fan,” Alcaraz mentioned. “He’s made me watch races, made me support him. And what better way to support Fernando than with a message on the camera?”
What sort of driver would Alcaraz be if he was competing alongside Alonso? The reply was easy, however emphatic: “I’d be a very aggressive one!” he mentioned smiling. It shouldn’t be a shocking response from a participant who has not dropped a set in his final 9 matches and hit 188 winners in Indian Wells.
Alcaraz is at the moment within the midst of his personal race within the United States. While Alonso chases his thirty third win, the 19-year-old is bidding for the ‘Sunshine Double’ (profitable in Indian Wells and Miami in the identical season). He can be the youngest participant to realize the feat, and the primary since Roger Federer in 2017.
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“I try not to think about that, but it’s difficult. It’s something I really want. I want to be one of those few players who have won the ‘Sunshine Double’. So, for me, it would be great to achieve it,” defined the eight-time tour titlist, who will face American Taylor Fritz for the primary time on Wednesday for a spot within the semi-finals.
Alcaraz is three wins away from being the eighth participant on the ATP Tour to win Indian Wells and Miami in the identical yr because the beginnings of the Masters 1000 class in 1990. He would be part of Novak Djokovic (2011, 2014-16), Federer (2005-06, 2017), Andre Agassi (2001), Marcelo Ríos (1998), Pete Sampras (1994), Michael Chang (1992) and Jim Courier (1991).
If the Murcia native can win Miami, it may very well be him that conjures up Alonso to victory when the Spanish driver is racing in the identical metropolis in a couple of weeks.
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