While Carlos Alcaraz may have finally left his persistent injury \u2060woes behind, the Spanish tennis player is enduring a different kind of agony as a lifelong \u200cReal Madrid supporter watching his team’s sputtering start to the \u200cseason.<\/p>\n
Real<\/a>, who were beaten 2-1<\/a> by rivals \u200cAtletico Madrid<\/a> on Sunday, are fourth in the standings \u200cwith 15 points – 6 behind rivals and league \u200cleaders Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asked about Real’s performances under new manager Jose Mourinho, seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz<\/a> told Stats Perform \u200con Wednesday that the club “can do \u2060better”.<\/p>\n “Right now, I’m seeing \u200cother teams doing better. They are Real Madrid, great \u200bplayers, talented,” added the Spaniard, speaking ahead of the Laver Cup, where he will \u200bbe part of Team Europe.<\/p>\n “As a team, they can do better. They have to work it out \u2060a little bit. \u200bI’m suffering right now watching the games because you never know what’s going to happen. I would say a little bit more intensity (is needed).”<\/p>\n Alcaraz’s Team \u200cEurope teammate Casper Ruud<\/a> also weighed in on football, hailing Norwegian compatriot and Manchester City<\/a> player Erling Haaland<\/a> as the best striker in the world.<\/p>\n “His ratio of touches to goals, I mean, no one can match him. No one is even near,” the former world number two added.<\/p>\n The three-day Laver Cup begins on Friday in London and \u200cwill also feature Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Flavio Cobolli, Jakub \u200bMensik and Rafael Jodar for the Europeans.<\/p>\n Andre Agassi’s \u200cTeam World features Taylor Fritz, Learner Tien, Brandon Nakashima<\/a>, Alex de Minaur, Alexander Bublik and Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Team Europe, captained by Yannick Noah, are attempting to reclaim the Laver Cup after \u2060last year’s defeat by \u2060Team World in \u200cSan Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Carlos Alcaraz may have finally left his persistent injury \u2060woes behind, the Spanish tennis player is enduring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}