The secret weapon of Alcaraz in Wimbledon

* Alcaraz -fritz: 19h30 today 11/7, Hanoi time. Typically, when talking about this skill, Novak Djokovic, with deep payments, and Jannik Sinner, with stability, is often mentioned first.

However, only in 2024, the Spanish tennis player surpassed the direct opponents and top 10 world players on delivery. He led with the rate of food from the delivery phase (41.6%), the winning rate of the game (30.9%) and the number of ACEs had to receive each lowest match (5.1%) during the season.

Particularly on the pitch, Alcaraz really breaks out. Before the opponent's serve - the most decisive factor on this yard, the ratio of his delivery point reached 34.6% since 2023, far beyond anyone out of the top 300 players. This will be an important detail when Alcaraz faces the powerful and accurate serve of Fritz in the Wimbledon semi -finals today.

Based on instinct and sensitive sensation, Alcaraz is developing a traditional and modern style, but above all cannot be classified. At Roland Garros a few weeks ago, he changed the serve position, sometimes standing close to the end of the yard, sometimes backwards.

at Queen’s and from the beginning of Wimbledon 2025, Alcaraz continued to adjust. He stood about 1.5 meters from the end of the yard when returning the serve, even when confronted with strong players like Jiri Lehecka, Arthur Rinderknech or Jan-Lennard Struff. As for the two opponents, the Spaniard only advanced up a few centimeters.

Compared to other pitches, Alcaraz's serve on the pitch still has in common.. Basically, he still performed a typical gently jumping movement - a shocking forward just a few percent of seconds before the opponent hit the ball - combined with subtle short -moving shots and the ability to reach out to the "Outside Serve " intersection (the serve into the cross -balloon box compared to the position of the opponent) of the opponent.

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Alcaraz began to hit on the pitch, and expressed through small but fast actions. If on the ground or hard pitch, his body is flexible, then on the pitch, his upper body seems to be "locked " more tighter. This is the need to deal with very uncomfortable swirling and cuts, or abnormal balls - something not rare on the Wimbledon pitch. Julien Varlet, a former French professional player and now comments for Canal+ Afrique and RMC, explaining: "On the pitch, people play more defensive tennis style. It is necessary to keep certainty, lower the focus, because the ball is lower. The extremely impressive movement not only helps Alcaraz gain an advantage in the series that requires endurance or when on the net, especially in the shades that require the fastest reflex possible, "Varlet further analyzed. With the way of holding a hammer style, he often supports the ball, or "chip " (dropped to create a low ball and swirled) when delivered. This hit is like a non -power cut, the ball goes close to the net and falls in the middle of the yard, pushing the serve into a awkward position: too close to not on the net, but too far to back down. Fabio Fognini in the first round of Wimbledon 2025, when faced with the two -end serve at 159 km/h, Alcaraz can completely choose to hit the string or cross the field. But he deliberately held a hammer style, cut the ball to fall in the middle of the yard, forcing the opponent to move inside.

always attack if there is a chance, prepare quickly if needed and keep balance, the second world player is applying the most appropriate tactics based on the available quality when confronting strong ball players on the pitch. But these adjustments, though small, will not be able to work, if he does not have a superior physical foundation.

Varlet concludes and recounts a detail about Alcaraz: "When talking about him, I put the physical element on the top. The last moment when the ball touches the racket, to practice reflexes and sensitivity ".