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Rafael Nadal: “Alcaraz can win in the semifinal against Djokovic. I don't see any reason why he cannot win” Rafael Nadal talked to the press following his 2-6, 6-1, 3-6 loss against Carlos Alcaraz in Madrid. “First of all, congratulations to him. I don't know, handover, of course it is. He's 19 years old. His birthday was yesterday. Me, I'm 36 years old. Of course it's a handover. From here onwards, if it's today or not, we will see next months. First thing I'm happy in that regard. He has been better than me in several aspects of the match and several aspects of the game, and I need to improve, as I have said, these days. Nothing that's not inside what's logical, and I just accept it naturally with calm and with security that there is a path to continue until in two-and-a-half weeks' time, more or less, to try to generate with myself real options, and that's what I'm working on right now. It's an easy loss to digest in that regard, because we knew what we could expect here, and now because of that, I don't take away any merit from Carlos. Congratulations to him. He's playing great, and I hope the best for him for the rest of the tournament. How have I felt physically during the match? I have had a few days to train on clay before coming into this tournament, and right now I'm not analyzing this particular match. I'm just analyzing my game, isolating it from today's match, because in any case, I don't want to remove any merit to Carlos. But the first thing I do is congratulate Carlos. After that, I have to analyze myself, I have to criticize myself, and I have to understand what I have to improve to be able to reach with options, with more options next week, especially in two weeks' time. From there onwards, I know what I have to do. What I have to do is to smack the ball harder, to have the capacity to move around with my shots faster, recover my dynamics and the speed. You just recover that with days and with matches, like yesterday, like the first day, like today. This is the reality. From there onwards, you just have to continue that path with the constant determination, with the correct determination, knowing that when you come from a period like the one I came from, you have to accept the things the way they came and just go with this determination, because in the medium term, we have a goal that is higher than any sadness that I may have for losing. How do you think that match against Carlos and Novak is going to be? I don't know. I cannot predict the future. It's going to be a tough match. I swear I haven't seen a single match of Novak in Madrid. We are talking about one of the best players of the history against a young, still young at a very high level player. It's obvious that Novak has already played in Monte-Carlo, Belgrade, semifinals here, so perhaps he's had a few more matches than me. I think it's been a couple of months playing on clay. Carlos can win perfectly. I don't see any reason why he cannot win. It's true that he cannot have the downside that he had on the second set, talking about today's match, but, well, it's true that Carlos plays a lot with adrenaline, with momentum. When adrenaline goes up, he's practically unstoppable, but then in some moments he commits errors, but it's logical because he plays with a lot of risk. It's his way of playing, and in that sense I think he has the level to be able to win anyone of the world. But what can happen tomorrow, we will see what happens tomorrow, I guess it depends on who plays better”. Website BTU - Ukrainian Tennis - joins the fundraising to help internally displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk Region
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