Sporting Life: Carlos Alcaraz has tennis in a spin with his drop shots

The new trophy at the Madrid Open is designed by David Rodriguez Caballero. He is a Spanish sculptor, which is a fair description of the first player to hold his trophy.

Carlos Alcaraz uses only one implement but he does so in multiple ways. His racket is a forehand hammer and yet a drop-shot chisel. He pounds and then he chips away inventively. There is, one might say, a bit of the warrior poet to him.