Don’t worry, Mom and Dad: Carlitos is cooling it on the ink. After his latest Wimbledon triumph, Carlos Alcaraz says he’ll be tempering his tradition of immortalizing major wins on his body.
In each of his first two Grand Slam victories, the Spaniard joined his fellow 2023 Wimbledon champion, Marketa Vondrousova, in getting tattoos to commemorate the milestone. He has the date of his 2022 US Open win, which made him the youngest man to reach the world No. 1 ranking, near his right elbow, and the date of his 2023 Wimbledon victory sits above a strawberry on his right ankle. After winning for the first time at Roland Garros last month, he said he was hoping to add art of the Eiffel Tower to his growing collection, though he has yet to make good on that promise.
But after rolling to a straight-sets win over Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s final to improve to 4-0 in Grand Slam finals in his young career (only Roger Federer started off on a longer winning streak in major finals among men in the Open Era), the 21-year-old said he made a deal with his parents to tone down his collection … but that his second Wimbledon win will be an exception to this new rule.
“I told my parents, just to calm them, that it’s just the first one in every major!” a laughing Alcaraz said post-match on Tennis Channel. “But I think this is a really big moment. I think I’m going to put the date of this one next to last year. I have to discuss it with them!”
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