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Carlos Alcaraz Full Interview with John & Patrick McEnroe at Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Period. There there is Carlous, there's my guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to see you, man. I love watching you
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  Speaker 2: know that. Tell me about your match today.
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  Speaker 3: It's great. It's great saying you again.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: John H.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so there was. It was great. It was it
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  Speaker 3: was a great match. I mean it was a solid match.
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  Speaker 3: He started playing much better. Second said that I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: handle that that level. I didn't then or I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: take chances he brought me in the sacond set. But
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  Speaker 3: very happy in general about about the level. Proud about
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  Speaker 3: the way that I started the first set. Uh strong,
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  Speaker 3: strong mentally and uh putting a strong strong shots. So
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  Speaker 3: just really happy with uh yeah, with the level today
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  Speaker 3: and hope and hopefully hopefully keep it going.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about that shirt. Watch that shirt?
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  Speaker 3: You know, honestly I don't even know. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Look, they gave it.
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  Speaker 3: They gave it to me, and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is uh this is really cool shirt. So I
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  Speaker 3: had to worry. But honestly I don't. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: where where it came from. No, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it is football or not, so not sure. I had
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  Speaker 3: to ask you, we.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Carlos, that you can play on every surface. Right,
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  Speaker 1: You've already won Wimbledon twice, US Open and of course
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  Speaker 1: here at Roland Garretts. But your year was pretty good
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  Speaker 1: to start, but once you got on the clay, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like you started to play your best tennis. You
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  Speaker 1: won two Big Masters tournaments. Would you say that clay
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  Speaker 1: is your best surface?
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  Speaker 3: I could say that right now. I always say I
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  Speaker 3: always said that. The probably I'm feel more comfortable playing
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  Speaker 3: on hardcore, but I think right now I can't. I
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  Speaker 3: can't say, you know anymore. I grew up playing on
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  Speaker 3: clay court, so right now, yeah, right now, when when
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  Speaker 3: the clay season is uh starting? So I just I
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  Speaker 3: just feel happy. I just uh just wanted to to
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  Speaker 3: play on clay. So right now I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever whatever is exactly. Let me ask you this, Carlos,
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  Speaker 2: because we've been watching Stefano Sissy Pat's play and he
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  Speaker 2: lost in Australia first round to an American and he
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  Speaker 2: said at that time that the game has changed drastically
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  Speaker 2: only in the last one or two years. It's much
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  Speaker 2: much faster. He said he's got to do something, change
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  Speaker 2: something to stay at the top of the game. Do
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  Speaker 2: you agree with that? What do you think of those
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  Speaker 2: comments he made? Is that true in your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I I've been the tour just for three years,
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  Speaker 3: so I can't compare, you know, from from before. Let's say,
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  Speaker 3: but uh right, yeah I can, I can. I can
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  Speaker 3: see like the titis right now is much much faster. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't do any any changes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to grew up on the I'm playing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing as fast as they as they play. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let's say I can't. I am a great with him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just probably they had to do something
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  Speaker 3: as to stay in there in the top because the
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  Speaker 3: game right now is my or is fast.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say, let me ask you this also, one Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Ferrera has been your coach since you or I think
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  Speaker 2: thirteen or fourteen if I correct me if I'm wrong, fifteen, fifteen, fifteen, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think so. Yeah so, But but before that, you
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  Speaker 2: obviously started playing in a much younger age, and you've
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  Speaker 2: developed the ability to hit any shot, including you. I
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  Speaker 2: love this, but you come to NET so much. You're
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  Speaker 2: great at NET. Who taught you technically at that age?
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  Speaker 2: At what age were you encouraged I suppose to come
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  Speaker 2: in and be aggressive and play it net as much
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  Speaker 2: as you do. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, when I was when I was young, I I uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I used to play with with some with I mean
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  Speaker 3: against older players like wow or two years and I
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  Speaker 3: was super skinny, so I had to do you know,
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  Speaker 3: other things coming to the drop sorts or whatever. So
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  Speaker 3: I just uh, you know, since the very very beginning
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  Speaker 3: I started playing to play like like that. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think they did a really great work with me,
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  Speaker 3: you know technically to do you know, the right the
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  Speaker 3: right things, and I tried to grew up with with
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  Speaker 3: that things. And yeah, when I started with with Pon
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  Speaker 3: Carlos at fifteen, he taught me really great things technically,
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  Speaker 3: but in terms of how I had to approach you know,
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  Speaker 3: the match or the practices and how I have to
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  Speaker 3: be you know, of the court. So it was uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, since the beginning, my father was really important,
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  Speaker 3: uh person to you know, my career, just to make
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  Speaker 3: the great things on the court as well. So I think, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, since the beginning, they they made that really good,
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  Speaker 3: great great work and then one Carlos uh kept it
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  Speaker 3: you know in the in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: We agree. We agree, Carlos, and we appreciate you coming
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  Speaker 1: into the mac soone. We just had Odell Beckham Junior here,
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  Speaker 1: who's your big fan of yours too, the great football player,
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  Speaker 1: American football player from the US. So thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining us and good luck the rest of the turnline.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos man appreciating it.
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  Speaker 3: Us, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us.