Watching Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon, I witnessed something startlingly new
From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence into risk.
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From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence into risk.
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