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Everything about Wimbledon winner Carlos Alcaraz

By Wieke Veenboer | #!31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:002331#31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:00-11Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam202331 17am31am-31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:0011Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam2023312023Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +02004511457amMonday=9#!31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam7#07-17-2023#!31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:002331#/31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:00-11Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam202331#!31Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:45:23 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam7#

What. A. Final. Admittedly: I didn't sit in front of the TV for over four hours (with a good excuse: I had to play tennis myself, although that was at a very different level), but as soon as I could, I was glued to the screen. A thrilling final, where the 20-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz proved too strong for the 36-year-old legend Novak Djokovic. Alcaraz is not the youngest winner ever of Wimbledon (that was Charlotte Dod in 1887 at the age of fifteen), but he is the record holder for the youngest number one in the world ever. In 2022, at the age of nineteen, he became first in the ATP Rankings - Djokovic was number two.

But what else do we actually know about Carlos Alcaraz?
The most important thing we discuss first. Is this Spanish tennis player still single? Unfortunately, I don't have a very clear answer to that. According to the latest rumors, he would be dating, but that has not been confirmed anywhere. The lucky lady in question is also a tennis player, the equally Spanish Maria Gonzalez Gimenez. They both come from the Spanish Murcia, and although Gimenez's career has not exploded as much as Alcaraz's, such a shared passion will surely help in a relationship.

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And that exploded career is really impressive, aside from the fact that he is still so young. Last year, he struggled with quite a few injuries, and last month he even had to retire against Djokovic during Roland Garros due to extreme leg cramps. They faced each other in the semi-finals then.

In 2022, he also had to skip some tournaments due to injuries: the ATP Finals, the Davis Cup Finals, and the Australian Open, and as a result, he temporarily lost his number one spot in the ranking. Still, 2022 was also a great year for him, as he won his very first Grand Slam (during the US Open). It's bizarre that he wins Wimbledon less than a year later against a living legend like Djokovic.

He was very aware of that, he said yesterday in his speech. That at his age of twenty he got to play against such a great, against someone he always looked up to, someone who inspired him to play tennis. Before the match, Alcaraz said it would be ‘the best day of his life’, and I think he more than fulfilled that. And this while he was initially quite skeptical about it, because Wimbledon is played on grass. ‘Wimbledon is perhaps the hardest for me to achieve, even though I do enjoy playing on grass,’ he said about that.

And if he still has time besides tennis, he can always try his hand at modeling. He has already graced the cover of the Spanish Vanity Fair and made the American Vogue also did an extensive profile of him in February of this year. Yes, if one thing is certain, it is that we will see and hear a lot from Alcaraz in the coming years. You won't hear me complain...

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