The 21-year-old became the youngest male athlete to reach an Olympic final on Friday, beating Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in 75 minutes.

If the top-seeded Serbian recovers from a knee injury, he will face Novak Djokovic in the gold-medal clash on Sunday and Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti in the second semi-final.

“The final will be a really special moment for me in my life and my career, so I’ll try to enjoy this moment,” Alcaraz said.

“It’s going to be tough, but it’s also going to be special. I’m going to try to focus on myself and not hear all this, all the fans, all the people saying, ‘I’m going to win.’

“I just want to do my best in tennis and hopefully I can achieve my goal of getting the gold medal.”

Playing at Roland Garros, where he won his first French Open in June, Spanish star Alcaraz beat 19th-ranked Auger-Aliassime three times in the first set to pull away with six games in a row.

Alcaraz broke serve once again in the fourth and sixth games of the second set to earn his fourth consecutive win over his Canadian opponent, despite losing the first three games of the pair.

“It was a very complete performance and I played at a very high level from start to finish,” Alcaraz said.

“I experienced very good emotions and feelings, I am very happy.”

“The final is very important for me and the Spanish people but I try not to think about how important it is and I will focus on the match,” he added.

Wimbledon champion Alcaraz became only the fourth Spanish man to reach the men’s final after Jordi Arrese in Barcelona in 1992, Sergi Bruguera four years later in Atlanta and Rafael Nadal, who won gold in Beijing in 2008.

He now has a chance to become the youngest men’s champion since tennis returned to the Olympics in Seoul in 1988.