Wimbledon: Cameron Norrie and Carlos Alcaraz primed for Ibiza battle in quarter-final clash | Tennis News

UNTZ UNTZ DOOF DOOF Dating in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, although Cameron Norrie and Carlos Alcaraz are not your Usual Ibiza Boss Archetypes.

The players approach the task of competing with the best in the world in different ways. Some admirers will implement the same nutritional trends, some will imitate training routines, others were going to pass a niche stop activity to strengthen their balance between professional and privacy. And some will go to Hï at 9 p.m. on Friday (go to Spotify … * shakes their heads in disappointment *).

Alcaraz resumes his attempt to win a third consecutive Wimbledon crown when he seeks to derail a purring Norrie for a place in the last four Tuesday. Just as he did before each of the last two fifteen days triumphed at SW19, the Spaniard preceded his All England Club campaign with a trip to Ibiza.

Also, Norrie. Do as the champions do, could say some.

“Many tennis players told me about Ibiza,” said Alcaraz. “So I don’t know. I’m just going to ask Ibiza to pay me a little bit of that (smiling).

“I’m just happy to see that the things I do are always useful for other players just to be happy or to play a good tennis.

“No matter if it’s Ibiza or other places. Just find a peaceful place for them, and they will use it for his favor in tournaments.”

The British on tour apparently like to think of Ibiza and its festive and central offers as something of their own warm nest to take place, perhaps too sometimes. But with a visit to the Ile des Baléares, Norrie, like most, found peace and renewed energy.

He referred to the experimentation of the “Carlos method” in an interview and described how he visited the Pacha nightclub before spending the rest of his time relaxing.

The result was another appearance in the second week of Wimbledon as the last British player in the draw in simple spell after postponing the Mammoth Nicolas Jarry in a fourth round thriller in five sets.

“To face Cam is always really, really difficult,” said Alcaraz. “We already have difficult battles. Yeah, for me, faces him is almost a nightmare, to be honest.

“Really hard from the basic line. I am not surprised that he is in the quarterfinals, playing great tennis because I saw him practice.

“When he lost at Queen, he stayed for five days in the morning, afternoon and night. I saw it. So I’m not surprising to see your level.

“It will be really different. He plays at home too, so he will use the crowd by his side. I must be very mentally and focused to play a good tennis if I want to beat him.”

Norrie was a chasm away from the claims and the world elite for a large part of last year, a drop in shape combining with a three -month spell out of action with an arm injury to make an 2024 Rocky.

Meanwhile, he found himself ranked 91st in the world earlier this year, before going to the 61st before Wimbledon.

This week, he spoke of rediscovering his enjoyment of sport and even admitted that it had won the results themselves, his relief on as much as it pointed out when he threw himself on the ground while celebrating his victory in the marathon over Jarry.

Norrie had overturned a monster service with 46 AS, valiantly held her nerve after abandoning an advance in two sets and absorbed an electric atmosphere of Wimbledon to fight against the spotlight in her direction. He lives for fighting and exhausting fights; Alcaraz will give him this.

“The crowd is involved and the crowd was on my side,” he said after beating Jarry. “I really tried to use it. As I said the other day, I had my friends, my family, my girlfriend there watching support, and I wanted to give everyone something to encourage,” said Norrie.

“There are so many different games of the tennis game with momentum and energy and different moments in matches with equality breaks, with breaking points.

“It’s very fun, and I appreciate all the aspects of it.

“I think that if you are a junior player, I might watch this match and watch our two body languages ​​for the whole match. None of us dropped our heads. We made nothing negative. It was all positive. He was blowing up; I was turning on. I loved all this.”

The former n ° 8 worldwide Norrie offers an offer to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Chelem for the second time, after being beaten by Novak Djokovic in the Final Four in Wimbledon in 2022.

Following his victory over Jarry, he remembered the doctors once tests on the size of his lungs, which asked them if he was a deep sea diver such as their amazing size.

His famous cardio will be supported again when he tried to danger an Alcaraz on the momentum of a sequence of victories of 22 games featuring his French victory in five sets against Jannik Sinner.

The second seeded carries a victory in four sets on Andrey Rublev during the previous round, after which he largely put the evaluations on his selection and his success while highlighting an accent on the mental side of his game.

“Tennis is really a mental sport. The way you talk about is really, really important throughout the match,” said Alcaraz.

“So I’m just trying to be as positive as possible. Sometimes it’s really difficult. Many stories, thoughts sell you most of the time because the tennis match could be really long.

“I try to fill my mind with positive thoughts all the time. I just repeated myself that I can do it, let’s go, all the things that are really useful for playing your best and not being afraid to play aggressively or play my plan.

“It is my conversation with myself that it is really, really important to fill your mind with positive thoughts.”

There is a two-step fanfaron and a rebound on the head bob, both translating Ibiza-Serenity puffing in all the affirmations in England. The party continues. On the one hand, he must stop.

Norrie wants noise, welcoming another dose of the noisy atmosphere that fueled his victory over Jarry.

“I think the crowd knows that I like the noisy atmosphere, and above all there were a few moments in the match where they became very noisy in a love-30, in equality break,” he said.

“You can feel the energy you come back. So it’s so good. I watched Emma’s match (Raducanu’s match against Aryna Sabalenka).

“The level was really high, so it was nice to see her very calm and play her tennis, to enjoy her tennis too. She was excited with the crowd too. I really appreciated that.”

Alcaraz submitted to win a third successive title from Wimbledon and has a percentage of 91.7 victory, the highest in the open era.

But Norrie has become a touch of subtle and underestimated feathers. Last year, he got angry Roberto Carballated Baena with his cries of “Vamos!” resulting from his long -standing relationship with the Argentinian coach Facundo Lugons. Novak Djokovic previously took an aversion to frequent Norrie’s fist celebrations after points, while the Serbian was also unhappy with the masters of Rome in 2023 when Norrie struck a touch above his legs after the champion of the Grand Chelem 24 times turned his back to materialize a point.

And just this week, Jarry expressed her frustration in the face of the number of times Norrie bounced the ball between the services, sharing heated words with her opponent at the end of the match.

Norrie could be the least malicious player on the tour. And Alcaraz is not so easily shaken, not by a long section. But the Briton, while perhaps missing a masterful weapon off competition, sometimes operates with the kind of survey which encourages both frustration and impatience. Sometimes it is the ultimate mental test.

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