Carlos Alcaraz has done something very unusual in practice before Queen’s tournament starts

Carlos Alcaraz will kickstart his title defence at Queen’s tomorrow, and has been pictured training in the West Kensington complex in the run-up.

He will face off against a whole host of stars in this prestigious ATP 500 event, with the likes of Ben Shelton, Holger Rune, Grigor Dimitrov and Alex de Minaur just four of the many who will be vying to dethrone the Spaniard.

Fresh from his French Open triumph, this marks the 21-year-old’s first foray into grass-court competition this season, and thus some kind of acclimatisation period is to be expected.

However, the manner in which he has gone about preparing for the event has drawn questions, after he did something completely out of the ordinary late last week.