“You understand, as a fan of tennis, I at all times watch Rafa taking part in. I at all times need to watch the perfect gamers on this planet taking part in the tournaments.
“And naturally studying from them actually shut, right here within the locker rooms, , across the membership, the event for me is nice. After I hear that (Nadal’s doable retirement), for me, it was powerful to know the way it’s gonna be with out Rafa this 12 months. Hopefully to see him subsequent 12 months that he is 100 per-cent.”
Alcaraz has lengthy been seen as tennis’ inheritor to Nadal. Nevertheless, the teen, who gained his maiden Grand Slam within the US on the backend of final 12 months, refused to be drawn on the comparisons of the pair on the identical age.
He mentioned: “You understand, it is completely different time when he was 20 years outdated. I can not say proper now if I am stronger proper now than him on the identical age. In fact he did nice issues at my age, however I can not reply that query.”