Carlos Alcaraz continued his unbeaten start to the 2026 season and even though he is still a long way away from the record, Novak Djokovic has backed the Spaniard to \u201ccontinue doing some historic things\u201d.<\/p>\n
World No 1 Alcaraz<\/a> has now won 13 matches in a row this season as he won his opening match at the Indian Wells Open with that victory coming on the back of seven wins in a row during his title run at the Australian Open and five wins to secure the Qatar Open.<\/p>\n Ahead of the match against Grigor Dimitrov at the California ATP 1000 event, the seven-time Grand Slam winner was asked about all-time record<\/a> of 41, which Djokovic set back in 2011, and he conceded he still has a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously I know that 41, Novak holds the record. I\u2019m gonna say you don\u2019t realise how difficult it is until you, I\u2019m gonna say, you\u2019re chasing that, because, you know, all right, 41, it\u2019s not that much, but then you\u2019re like 12 on, it\u2019s like, s***, it\u2019s like four or five more tournaments, the biggest tournaments in the world (smiling),\u201d the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou realise and you feel like how impressive it is.\u201d<\/p>\n If Alcaraz ends up winning the Indian Wells Open, he will be on 18 wins, which will leave him another 23 matches away from the Djokovic<\/a> record, which is roughly another four tournaments.<\/p>\n Tim Henman admits he was \u2018finding it hard to believe what he was seeing\u2019 with Novak Djokovic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 10 active ATP players with the most prize money: Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Djokovic, who won seven tournaments in a row in 2011, believes his 23-year-old rival is riding a wave that could see him break that record.<\/p>\n \u201cHe can do it. He has everything that you need to have in terms of the game, in terms of the adaptability to different surfaces, and level of fitness and recovery that he has shown and matured over the years,\u201d the 24-time Grand Slam winner said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe needs to keep his body healthy. If he keeps his body healthy, I mean, he\u2019s so good that he can win any tournament he plays on.<\/p>\n \u201cSo you never know. He\u2019s been doing some historic things in our sport for such a young age. But yeah, I mean, winning 40-plus matches, and I have had a couple other runs, as well, at the beginning of different seasons where I had 25-plus, I think, twice, it\u2019s demanding.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, you know, at the same time, it feels when you are winning so much and you\u2019re riding that wave, you know, you don\u2019t want to let go of that wave. You want to surf on that wave as long as you can, because the level of confidence is really high, and obviously when you lose first time, that is a bit shaken up.<\/p>\n \u201cBut as long as you\u2019re winning, you feel like each match you feel stronger, in a sense, if I can reflect or recall my feelings that I had during that time.<\/p>\n \u201cI wish him many more victories. I think he\u2019s great for our sport, and what he\u2019s been doing is remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Novak Djokovic pays Carlos Alcaraz huge compliment and backs him to break \u2018demanding\u2019 record<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz continued his unbeaten start to the 2026 season and even though he is still a long way away from the record, Novak Djokovic has backed the Spaniard to \u201ccontinue doing some historic things\u201d. World No 1 Alcaraz has now won 13 matches in a row this season as he won his opening match […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis Features<\/h2>\n
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