Once Wimbledon 2022 is over, the ATP circuit will turn all its sights to North America. A very interesting hard court tour is coming up in places well known to tennis fans, one of them being the ATP Atlanta 2022a 250 tournament that kicks off this tour and that this season will feature a authentic luxury poster. Andy Murray y Nick Kyrgios are the great novelties of the Entry List, although the American event is led by seven top-30 players (Cameron Norrie, Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka, John Isner, Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe and Miomir Kecmanovic). It also highlights the return to the circuit of Kei Nishikori, which will have an invitation. The tournament will start on July 23th.
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Kyrgios: “Eliminating outside problems helps me to be better”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Nick Kyrgios continues to amaze in this Miami Open, Due to his level of play and his feelings, he is showing that he has definitively focused on tennis. With his victory over Fognini he returns to the world top-100 and he is convinced that it is time to keep looking up and win more matches: “I have found the motivation and peace to face these types of events”.
Match once morest Fognini
“It was a difficult game. We all know what Fabio is capable of and how he can play and who he has won. I knew it was not going to be easy today before the gameI knew I had to go with a calm mindset, keep my head down and let him get the most out of it. He just had to keep his head down and get on with the game.”
About his knee injury
“The injury I have and the way my knee is does not allow me to play at the highest level without proper maintenance, without proper treatment. I’ve been doing more gym since preseason than I ever have. I have to thank all that effort, because it is what is helping me to endure these games”.
About his knee treatment: “I need at least an hour a day. It’s not just the knee. There are other parts of my body that if they break down they are also going to put more stress on my knee. It is a constant maintenance, it is something symptomatic, you wake up one day and you can feel a lot of pain or not feel anything”.
Noticeable improvement at decisive points
“I feel like I’ve always played the big points well in my career.. In the beginning, I guess the reason I got to the top of the sport so quickly is because I played those important points well. For me it is vital to feel that peace off the court so that on it I can play the best of myself and have much clearer ideas”.
His title in Australia helped him improve
“Before I felt like I was totally playing under pressure and I had a negativity that didn’t really let me play well. Every day was constant negativity of the journalists, family, friends of all, I did not find positive things anywhere. I really hated my life and everything that revolved around it.”
“Leaving all this behind has taken me a long time, but now I am very happy and I think you can see that on the track. I take nothing for granted. I have a beautiful girlfriend. My best friend is here. I am playing great tennis. I just try to stay in the moment, think regarding the present. For me there is no time to mourn and I just move on. I just try to be positive, to help others and to lift my spirits.”
Think high for the future
“Obviously I want to get as high as possible, but my goal is to go day by day. Before, I felt that my biggest goals were not to win tournaments and become number 1 in the world. That’s not something I valued. I think that athletes always think, when they are young, that there is always a certain way of doing it, like that you have to be very professional, that you have to do this, that you have to do that, but in reality it is not like that”.
“I think I have paved the way. That’s why a lot of people relate to me on the court, because they say: Well, if this guy can do it, then they start to believe.”
“But it was not an easy conversation to have. I had to look in the mirror and say: Well, are you really okay with not winning these tournaments, something you’ve dedicated your whole life to? Seems OK. It was hard, but I’m not like that.”
After getting the victory once morest Carlos Alcaraz at Masters 1000 de Indian Wells 2022, Rafael Nadal will be number three in the ATP ranking next Monday. The one from Manacor will advance the German Alexander Zverev in the standings, who fell to Tommy Paul in his first match in the Californian desert.
How far will Spanish be able to go?
Rafael Nadal‘s win over Carlos Alcaraz also means that he will overtake Alexander Zverev as World Number 3 on Monday. #IndianWells
— Nikolaus Fink (@NikolausFink) March 20, 2022
Both delighted the crowd with frenetic exchanges, signing a meeting full of spectacle. So much Carlos Alcaraz What Cameron Norrie they forgot regarding the pressure and gave free rein to the rest. Carlos ended up beating Norrie 6-4, 6-3 in just 1 hour and 40 minutes in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells 2022 to face Rafael Nadal in the semifinals.
The game started strong with both players showing their intentions from the first points. If Norrie started the duel with a return winner, Alcaraz responded in the next exchange with a right hand winner at 165 km/h. The British pressed the rest during the first game of the Spanish to get ahead on the scoreboard. With patience, Carlos had to work on his service points so as not to be left behind, once morest Norrie who attacked aggressively, getting on court when he had the slightest chance. Alcaraz controlled the anxiety that led him to make certain unforced errors to debut in the light.
The Spaniard recovered the distance in a game where he seemed to be the experienced one, closing points at the net with great drop shots. Even so, Alcaraz was besieged once more by Norrie, who made it 4-3. The one from Murcia faced balls of break in the 4 games in which he served. With a iron defense in the network following a drop, Carlos returned to put the equality in the set. After getting through his first game without points break once morest, Alcaraz broke the rest to put the first quarter on his side.
After breaking the Spaniard’s serve to make it 2-1 in the second set, Norrie needed the physio’s assistance. After the brief break, the Spaniard added a game to the remainder to make it 2-2 on the scoreboard. From one side of the court to the other, a daring Alcaraz broke his rival’s serve to get one game away from the semis.
From less to more
Carlos closed the game once morest a Cameron Norrie who had nothing left to try. The Briton was left without strategies in the face of the wall that the Spaniard put up, which clearly evolved in the match, growing on the track. It seems that the future of Spanish tennis is more present than ever.