Carlos Alcaraz’s Superstar Moment Is Here
The Spanish tennis player could succeed Federer, Nadal and Djokovic. Plus: No jail, no bail.
Alcaraz.
Photographer: Corey Sipkin/AFP
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Last Thursday evening, four days before the opening round of the US Open Tennis Championship, Carlos Alcaraz spent a few minutes playing pickleball in a ballroom of the Lotte New York Palace in Midtown Manhattan. The 20-year-old Spaniard and current world No. 1 in men’s tennis was one of six players on hand (along with Venus Williams, Ons Jabeur, Holgar Rune, Andrey Rublev and Tommy Paul) for the Palace Invitational, an annual promotional event hosted by the hotel where a few dozen guests and VIPs get to rub shoulders with pros ahead of the open.