🎙️ Taylor Fritz about Carlos Alcaraz playing the US Open with no competitive tennis in four months:
🇺🇸: “I think my take's probably going to surprise you because it's like — what else would he do? If he feels he's healthy enough to play, why not play? And that's my opinion. It's not necessarily easy to do it. But, you know, if you can get past those like first couple rounds, you start to feel pretty good. Like you start to get in that match shape and you have the confidence and at that point there's no reason why he couldn't, you know, find form and play really well and, you know, who knows. But I think, if you feel healthy, might as well, like, what's the worst that can happen? You lose. I mean, not playing not playing the tournament is the same thing as essentially losing as well in my opinion.”
A really nice older lady was sitting behind me in Ashe and didn’t recognize him with his hair like this. I confirmed it’s him and then she proceeded to announce to us all - including her kids - that he looks hot like this and she approves. I love tennis.
Federer on who he would like to face in a match:
"Maybe Carlos, I think he's exciting, I never got a chance to play him"
"It's nice to see Carlos back, I'm happy he made it in time...I don't have to worry how I would play him because I'm not in the draw but I wish him the best"