WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz builds his perfect grass court player featuring Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff and himself

Alcaraz recently failed to defend his title at the Queen's Club Championships.

WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz builds his perfect grass court player featuring Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff and himself

Carlos Alcaraz (Via Imago/screengrab X)

After a very exciting clay court season, the tour headed to the grass court season, and with it came a new trend in the circuit. A trend where the players get to build their perfect grass court player from the given list of players and attributes. 

Over time, many players have tried the trend, and now it was time for Wimbledon’s defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to hop on the train. Coincidently, he got himself as the first option and placed it on speed, followed by Stefanos Tsitsipas on forehand. 

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The short video only got more interesting as he placed Ons Jabeur and Coco Gauff at the touch and mentality respectively before getting his idol, Rafael Nadal, as the next option, who he placed at serve after some serious thought. He finished it off by placing Elina Svitolina for the backhand attribute. 

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Alcaraz built his perfect grass-court player as he stays back on grass and prepares for his title defense at Wimbledon.

Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz cannot get past the Jack Draper challenge as he gets knocked out of Queen’s

Carlos Alcaraz headed to the Queen’s Club Championships after reclaiming his spot as World No. 2. However, he was unable to make it work at the tournament and lost out in the fourth round. The Spaniard was up against Britain’s own Jack Draper, who was fresh off his maiden ATP title in Stuttgart. 

Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz (Via Imago)

Continuing the same, Draper surprised Alcaraz with his form and took down the Spaniard in straight sets. It was his best win on the tour and with that went all the way up to his career-best ranking of World No. 28 in the live rankings. 

It was a really tough match I knew coming out here that Carlos is the defending champion, he won Wimbledon, he's an amazing talent.. I knew I had to come out here and play really well, and luckily I did that. 
Jack Draper said in the post-match interview

This win by the Brit meant that most of the top seeds of the tournaments were out, giving him a good chance to try and win his second ATP title. Moreover, with this loss, Alcaraz lost a good deal of points and fell by one rank, making Novak Djokovic the new World No. 2 in the live rankings.

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