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Carlos Alcaraz Talks Winning 2025 Roland-Garros Final w_ TNT Crew · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Carlos Alkari is now the third youngest man in history
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  Speaker 1: to win five Grand Slams, fin only Borg and a doll. Carlos, congratulations, pal.
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  Speaker 1: How if you have any energy left to talk to
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  Speaker 1: us right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just uh, I don't know where where I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna find, you know, the energy to to have more interviews.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's great to just speak to do guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's uh, I'm just uh.
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  Speaker 3: Excited about everything. Honestly, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm standing I'm standing here talking to
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  Speaker 2: to you guys.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really happy and I'm proud about that about everything.
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  Speaker 4: Carlos is John mcenrol here.
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  Speaker 3: Two things.
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  Speaker 4: Just thank you for saying that I look forty years old.
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  Speaker 3: The other day. I much appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: And thank you as an ex tennis player for what
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  Speaker 4: you just did on that tennis court. There were so
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  Speaker 4: many times where it looked like you were down and out.
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  Speaker 4: Even in the end it looked like maybe Yannick would
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  Speaker 4: turn the tight take us through that match. You were
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  Speaker 4: down two sets of break five, three love forty. We
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  Speaker 4: could go on and tell me how you.
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  Speaker 2: Saw, uh, Honestly, I don't know why what I did.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know what happened, you know, yeah, five three and the
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  Speaker 2: fourth love forty. I just I didn't thought about anything else.
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  Speaker 2: That's just being on going point after point and putting
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  Speaker 2: my heart, my heart into it and uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting my my my my old energy into it as well.
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  Speaker 2: Just I try not to not to give up, not
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  Speaker 2: to give up. Just I mean, it were we were
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  Speaker 2: in a final of a Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 3: It was it wasn't time to to be afraid. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't time to give up.
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  Speaker 2: Just I just tried to fight until the last ball,
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  Speaker 2: really happy to save you know that much ball. And
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  Speaker 2: I knew that the seven five four seven four him.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't It wasn't easy. It was closing the matches,
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  Speaker 2: Uh it was. It's always tough, even tougher when you
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  Speaker 2: had three match ball and you didn't. So just try
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  Speaker 2: to put my heart into it, my you know, trying
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  Speaker 2: to go point after point and the after all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the face I play on such a great tennis
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  Speaker 2: I hope you know, the people.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy it as well. I think it was. It was
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  Speaker 3: a really play to enjoy it. So thank you, Carlos.
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  Speaker 3: You've given us so many great moments already.
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  Speaker 1: You're so young. Where does this match rank amongst all
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  Speaker 1: the matches you played at the majors?
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  Speaker 3: You won five of them so far.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna put it the first, the
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  Speaker 2: first one. I think this this match is the first
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  Speaker 2: match that I came back from two sets to low down,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it I think it wasn't uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a better, better occasion than the than you know,
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  Speaker 2: Rangarras final against the number one of the ward Donny.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was the perfect location to to come back from
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  Speaker 2: two sets to low down. So I think that that
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  Speaker 2: is the best match that I that I've played in
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  Speaker 2: agarand Slam history, uh, you know, in my career, in
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  Speaker 2: my careers, and the best Grand Slam match in my career.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really proud and unhappy that the that this this.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, Carlos and MAT's like that five hours, twenty nine minutes,
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  Speaker 1: it was truly incredible. Is that more difficult on your
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  Speaker 1: mind or your body?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Honestly, it was, uh it both, I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 2: deal with with the situations of the match.
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  Speaker 3: There were some situations in the match that my.
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  Speaker 2: Body felt like like couldn't handle it, uh you know anymore,
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  Speaker 2: Uh cramps, you know, low low energy. So there with
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  Speaker 2: all those situations, in the mind it said, it's always difficult,
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  Speaker 2: you know, But those those moments, it was a time
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  Speaker 2: to to think positive, to to think you're able to
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  Speaker 2: overcome these problems, to think that you're ready to to
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  Speaker 2: play more hours, uh, and to think that the to
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  Speaker 2: believe it was it was to believe in yourself. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's that was that the key that I
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  Speaker 2: that I believed in myself all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Hackers, you gotta go. We appreciate you. Where's the
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  Speaker 1: next tattoo going? Where are you putting it?
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  Speaker 3: Say again?
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  Speaker 1: Say again, where's the next tattoo going? You got the
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  Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower last time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I had to ask my father, my father, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I I I told I told my father
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  Speaker 2: he just going to be the first, the first one
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  Speaker 2: probably the day.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I had to discide with him.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we
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  Speaker 3: Thank you a champion.