John praises wonder boy Alkaraz

In 2016, McEnroe worked with Milos Raonic during the grass season. That year, Raonic reached the finals at Queen's and Wimbledon, losing to Andy Murray in both matches.

American former Tennis player John McEnroe made a huge Wimbledon prediction for World's no. 1 Spanish professional Tennis player Carlos Alcaraz. 
Insipe of being World's no. 1, Carlos Alcaraz  accepted that Serbian player Novak Djokovic who is  ranked at World's no. 2 by ATP ranking, is the current favourite for Wimbledon. The Serbian player is aiming to match Roger Federer's tally of record  that is eight Wimbledon titles at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Three- times Wimbledon champion John McEnroe recently talked high about Alcaraz and pointed out that, it is just a matter of time before Alcaraz would figure out how to play in grass. On an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail, he said, "This guy is going to figure it out. It’s just a matter of when to me, not if."

 

In 2016, McEnroe worked with Milos Raonic during the grass season. That year, Raonic reached the finals at Queen's and Wimbledon, losing to Andy Murray in both matches.

After Alcaraz's victory, the Spanish said, "It felt great to lift this trophy and to win my first tournament on grass. It is an amazing run for me this week. I played at an amazing level at the end of the week but seeing my name on a trophy, it means a lot, so I am going to keep that memory for the rest of my life, for sure."

Alcaraz also said that he is 'one of the favourites to win Wimbledon' but is not keeping have any sort of  expectations. "No expectations. If I did not have expectations (here) and I won it. Honestly, I have a lot of confidence now coming into Wimbledon. I ended up the week playing at a high level, so right now I feel one of the favourites to win Wimbledon", he said.

He also said that Djokovic as the main favourite. "Well, I am coming now (to play) Wimbledon with a lot of confidence, that’s obvious, but I saw a statistic that Novak has won more matches at Wimbledon than any top-20 player. What can I say about that? Novak is the main favourite to win Wimbledon, that’s obvious, but I will try to play at this level to have chances to beat him or make the final at Wimbledon," he said.

Alcaraz also made a last-minute change to his Wimbledon preparations, skipping a pre-tournament event and cited injury concern as the reason reportedly. He was set to play one last event, the Hurlingham Classic, where he was slated to face Dominic Thiem on Friday. He had also earlier withdrawn from his first match at the event, where he was scheduled to face Holger Rune on July 29. During his training sessions at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, he was also seen doing physiotherapy and stretching sessions on his right thigh, where he injured himself during the Club Championship final, where he defeated Alex de Minaur.

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