Alcaraz Is Going To 'Lose From Time To Time' But Has 'Unbelievable Future' Says Federer

| by Evita Mueller

Roger Federer was the guest of the most recent ATP Radio Podcast and he touched upon Carlos Alcaraz and his recent struggles.

Alcaraz had the best moment of his career earlier this year when he won Wimbledon by beating Novak Djokovic. Since then, it's been a rather lacklustre time for Alcaraz, who still plays really well, Top 5 level most of the time but also lost quite a few matches people expected him to win.

He hasn't booked a single final since then, and it's been evident that he's not playing his best and that it's been disappointing to him. It doesn't help that he's pursuing Djokovic in the year-end No. 1 race, and all these losses aren't helping. Still, to Federer, as somebody who was in his shoes, it's all perfectly normal.

Alcaraz is great. I mean, look, he's still young and everything that he has achieved is fantastic and also not just on clay or just on hard, you know. But also now winning Wimbledon against Novak in the final, that is that is no joke. I mean he didn't need to really prove that point but that's another super asterisk in his CV. Mighty impressive.

Federer on Alcaraz
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The standard the Big Four set for almost 15 years is really hard to match. There were four of them and they won almost all the time however we don't have a big four and none of them even won all of the time which is what people seemingly expect out of Alcaraz.

It's not realistic and will not happen no matter how great he is.

Of course, with Rafa, Novak, myself, and Murray, we all expect now every generation to produce best tennis every single week for some reason, but it's hard to do that. And I think Carlos, he's done as well as he possibly could have so far. And he's going to lose some time to time, like here in Shanghai but he's doing fantastic. He's got a great game and obviously an unbelievable future ahead of him,” he added.

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