Carlos Alcaraz responds after an ankle scare: “I stopped as a precaution…”

Carlos Alcaraz scared. During training with cerundolo He sprained his ankle and had to stop. But that’s okay. He calmed everyone down and said he’d be ready to debut at the last major of the season, US Open.

“I stopped training as a precaution, I think everything is fine.“I didn’t feel comfortable enough to continue training if the situation worsened. After a few hours I feel fine, the leg is fine. Tomorrow I will try to train again at 100% without thinking about it, but today I had to be careful. That’s what didn’t make me worry about my participation in the US Open,” said the winner of Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

And he admits that in a day or two he will be back in top form: “I was angry because I didn’t want to stop training just out of respect for Cerundolo. I want to improve, to be ready for the tournament. “I know I’ll be 100% in a day or two.”

After silver in Olympic Games in Paris (lost to Novak Djokovic in the final)Carlitos arrived in New York with a few preparatory matches: “I would have liked to have played more matches on hard court before the US Open, but it doesn’t affect me. If I look back, for example, at Roland Garros, it doesn’t affect me either. I played a lot of matches on clay and had a good result.”

“It’s the same with Wimbledon. I don’t want to think it will be like the previous Grand Slams, but I’m not worried that I won’t have many matches on hard courts.“, offer.