Alcaraz’s Grass-Fire Streak: Third Straight Trophy Ignites the Road to Wimbledon
The Queen’s Club has welcomed many a duke, but this Sunday a young hidalgo from Murcia sliced its air for the second time, chaining triumphs—Rome, Roland-Garros, London-on-Thames—as casually as a child clicks marbles. Forty-two victories on the year, eighteen in a row; Carlos Alcaraz stacks success with the nonchalance of counting clouds.
Ibiza nights and Tyrolean dawns: Alcaraz and Sinner after their Parisian epic
A week has drifted past, like a taffeta handkerchief carried off by the wind; yet in the maze of locker rooms the echo of their Paris duel still clicks, the pendulum of an ancient metronome. Five hours twenty-nine of opera buffa, a suspense fit to make Dumas blush: two sets and a break for Jannik Sinner, three squandered match points, and then the Murcian revolt—super-tiebreak, curtain, and fairy-lights.