卡洛斯·阿爾卡拉斯的迅速崛起似乎讓整個 ATP 巡迴賽都受到關注，卡斯帕·路德承認被這位西班牙少年弄得老了。
路德被認為是未來的大滿貫得主，但他表示年輕天才的出現讓他面臨證明自己的壓力。
路德在他的 Eurosport 播客中透露，他開始感受到在大滿貫賽事中表現出色的壓力。
他透露，像卡洛斯·阿爾卡拉斯和 20 歲的意大利神童洛倫佐·穆塞蒂這樣的年輕人的崛起增加了他對時間流逝的感覺。
“顯然，我把它作為今年的一個很高的目標和很大的期望，所以我當然希望我能做到。
“在那裡取得好成績可能是我今年的主要目標，因為我覺得這是大滿貫，至少現在我有更好的機會取得好成績。
“我認為，在我在這條賽道上變老之前，這對我來說很重要。
“我還不能這麼說，因為我才 23 歲，但是當你看到像卡洛斯·阿爾卡拉斯和洛倫佐·穆塞蒂這樣的球員以及所有這些人時，我開始覺得自己有點老了。我認為今年取得一個好的大滿貫成績對我來說很重要，因為我知道，在未來的幾年裡，我可以取得同樣甚至更好的成績”，他說。
路德認為他錯過了去年在法網打進八強的機會。
“法網已經在我的腦海裡縈繞了好幾個星期，因為這是一場我覺得去年我有點不幸的比賽，在某種程度上，這可能是我一年中最大的失望。
“並不是說第三輪是一個糟糕的結果，但這是一場非常接近的過山車比賽，在第三輪對陣 (Alejandro) Davidovich (Fokina)。由於多米尼克（蒂姆）輸了，平局拉開了一點。如果你在紙面上看，我想我應該在第四輪和他比賽。但大衛多維奇進入了四分之一決賽，這可能是我今年更大的目標之一”，他說。
Carlos Alcaraz makes 23-year-old top ten player feel old
The meteoric rise of Carlos Alcaraz appears to have put the entire ATP Tour on notice with Casper Ruud admitting to being made to feel old by the Spanish teenager.
Ruud has been tipped as a future Grand Slam winner but says that the emergence of young talents have put him under pressure to prove himself.
Speaking on his Eurosport podcast, Ruud revealed that he’s starting to feel pressure to deliver big performances in Grand Slams.
He revealed that the rise of youngsters like Carlos Alcaraz and 20-year-old Italian prodigy Lorenzo Musetti have added to his sense of time ticking away.
“Obviously, I’m putting it as a very high goal and big expectations for this year, so of course I hope I can deliver.
“It is probably been my main goal this year to do good results there, because it is the Grand Slam where I feel, for now at least, where I have better chances to do well.
“It is important for me I think, before I am getting old in this circuit.
“I cannot say that yet because I’m only 23, but when you see players like Carlos Alcaraz and Lorenzo Musetti and all these guys, I start to feel a little bit old. I think it’s important for me to have a good Grand Slam result this year to know that, for the future years, I can be able to do the same or even better result”, he said.
Ruud believes he missed out on a chance to reach the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year.
“Roland-Garros has been in my mind for some weeks already because it’s a tournament where I feel like last year I was a bit unfortunate and was maybe the biggest disappointment, in a way, of my year.
“Not saying third round is a bad result but it was a very close, and rollercoaster match, against (Alejandro) Davidovich (Fokina) in the third round. The draw had opened a little bit because Dominic (Thiem), he lost. If you look on paper, I suppose I was supposed to play him in the fourth round. But Davidovich made quarter-finals which was maybe one of my bigger goals of the year”, he said.
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