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Mexico’s Luis Carlos Alvarez fulfills his dreams, college and tennis



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  • The tennis player from the capital recounts the road to his debut in the main draw of an ATP tournament
  • His dream of becoming a professional tennis player remains intact, but the plan to study a career remains intact as well.

Los Cabos, July 13, 2025 – Born in Mexico City in 2004, Luis Carlos Alvarez took up the racquet at the age of 4. With a father who played the sport, perhaps his destiny was written. “My dad played tennis and showed me a Rafa (Nadal) match at Wimbledon, that’s when I fell in love with the sport and wanted to feel that excitement and adrenaline of being on a court like that or any ATP tournament.”

From the clay of Club Deportivo Mixcoac from the age of 4 to 8, passing through Club Cantil for his training, until he reached Conade where at the age of 17 he started playing ITF tournaments. Alvarez, now 20 years old, has managed to make his way in a country where tennis players struggle to become professionals without the structure that the sport’s powers boast.

But it was not until his arrival at Club Deportivo Chapultepec, where he met his current coach, Diego Marañon, when he began his youthful takeoff, winning tournaments and going out of the country to compete, confirmed his dream: to become a professional tennis player.

“It has always been a dream since I was a kid, to play this kind of tournaments, I am someone who loves to chase his dreams and that motivates me to keep fighting. When I started playing in the ITFs and I started doing well I said ‘yes I can achieve this kind of career’ and the decision to go to college in the United States helped me realize that I do want to be a professional. It’s a long process but I’m achieving steps little by little.”

Now Luis Carlos is studying Business at the University of Oklahoma, he is one year away from graduating. “My Plan A has always been to be a professional tennis player, but to have a Plan B in case anything happens, to be able to have the possibility, is to have a career.”

 “There are more and more college players playing tournaments and Grand Slams, Ben Shelton is the most famous but the level in the United States is growing a lot, I would recommend it because it gives you weapons for professionalism.” 

Among those tools Luis Carlos Alvarez has learned to meditate and visualize and it is now part of his pre-match ritual.

“I do it on the court, I started it in college and it helps me a lot to have better concentration, take away nerves and pressure, visualize that I’m playing well and that I’m achieving my dreams. On my phone afterward I see all my achievements on the screen with my dad”.

Among his accomplishments are winning ITF tournaments, playing junior Grand Slams, going to college, playing in the Davis Cup representing Mexico and putting his university at the top. When in Mexico, he follows his coach to the Tenis con Pasión (TCP) center in Mérida, Yucatán, where he shares facilities with Rodrigo Pacheco, one of his best friends and the most prominent Mexican tennis player of the moment.

Along with Pacheco and Alex Hernandez, Alvarez, all with wild cards, will play in the main draw of the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo, to be played from July 14 to 19 in Los Cabos, where Luis Carlos will face Australian James McCabe in the first round.

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