Tennis' ultimate equation solved by Carlos Alcaraz: head + heart = magic
I see myself in Alcaraz, the 2025 French Open champion, as I too never met a low-percentage shot that I didn't want to try. But unlike me, he knows how to make them work and to win big things.
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In my long ago dreams, when I was playing tennis seriously and the outcome mattered to my high school or university, I was Carlos Alcaraz. Please indulge the blurring of small details of me having three decades on the Spani…