Carlos Alcaraz continues to make history and achieves his first victory at Roland Garros 2021

Carlos Alcaraz’s progression continues to flow at meteoric speeds, although without taking him away from the reality that precisely explains this advance. Last Sunday, the El Palmar tennis player won the fourth Challenger title of his career, in Oeiras (Portugal), and jumps directly to the ATP Top-100, the first point scored with his team in a 2021 of great flights. His next goal, Roland Garros, starts from the previous phase, where he has already achieved his first victory against a veteran like Lukas Lacko. This entry, confirmed this Monday at just 18 years and 19 days, places him in the fifth historical position in the rankings of precocity of the professional circuit. Carlos appears in position 94 of the ATP classification, a milestone that places him only behind Juan Martín del Potro, Borna Coric, Richard Gasquet and Rafael Nadal, who reached position 99 in 2003, before his 17th birthday. .Alcaraz is having a magnificent gravel season, with the ATP 250 category semi-finals in Marbella and the title in Oeiras as the main arguments. In addition, he had the opportunity to face Nadal in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open after achieving the first victory of his career in a Masters 1000, against Adrian Mannarino.Carlos next stop is none other than Roland Garros, where from this Tuesday he will play the preliminary to access the final table, a phase in which he appears among the top candidates to be the winner. Alcaraz, the seventh seed in the qualifying round, debuted with victory against the Slovak Lacko, who did not put him in too much trouble to go to the round (6-3, 6-3). The Murcian has two other games left to get the catalog of the final table tennis player, the first of them against the Italian Andrea Pellegrino.Both Alcaraz and his team have in mind what happened in the last edition of Roland Garros, to which they arrived in great condition and with maximum expectation for their performance, but in which Carlos was eliminated at the first exchange by the Australian Aleksandar Vucic , in a game that he had in his hands and ended up flying by mere inexperience in these struggles. Once the first obstacle has been overcome, his first triumph with the majors in Paris, Carlos must continue dreaming, although with lead feet and one goal, the final draw. And from there, to enjoy.