Shelton<\/a> reaching the Flushing Meadows final, Alcaraz expected \u200cno shortage of genuine contenders for the \u2060big titles.<\/p>\n“Pre-season is \u200creally important,” Alcaraz told reporters after his Vienna Open triumph on \u200bSunday.<\/p>\n
“I can tell you that players are taking pre-season really seriously, those weeks of training hard \u200bto be in good shape.<\/p>\n
“Sascha (Zverev) showed us what he’s capable of doing. The best player of this year. \u2060He deserves to \u200bbe there. Let’s see if he’s going to continue to do the great things he’s been doing this year in 2027.<\/p>\n
“Shelton reached his first Grand Slam final and \u200cI think he’s ambitious and hungry for more next year. A couple of others also playing great and they’re going to try to practice at their best to be at their best next year.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like to say it’s going to be Jannik and me and the rest. Let’s see who’s going to be there. I’m pretty sure that a lot of players \u200care going to show up.”<\/p>\n
Alcaraz won his seventh Grand \u200bSlam title at the Australian Open before a \u200cwrist injury kept him out for more than four months. Since returning at the US Open, he has won titles in Tokyo and Vienna.<\/p>\n
He will look to finish the season on a high at \u2060this week’s Paris Masters \u2060and the ATP Finals \u200cfrom November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz expects the battle at the top of men’s tennis to \u2060be more than a two-horse race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821780","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\/821780","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=821780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}