Carlos Alcaraz hit rock bottom this morning at New York. The least expected day and the year he played tennis best, Bottic of Zandschulp This leaves him in a rather worrying situation. Not because of the image given on the Arthur Ashewho also, without the words he himself has Alcaraz said in a press conference after being eliminated in the second round last “Grand Slam” of the year.
“I very rarely felt the ball in the right place. And for the rest in the same way, I saw that the ball was moving away from me, that it was not arriving well, that it was not supporting well. “It’s a rather strange feeling,” he began by saying. Carlos Alcaraz. And the Murcian tennis player himself left all the journalists frozen in a press conference by expressing a reality that he had never experienced. In fact, not even “Carlitos” was able to put into words what had happened a few minutes before on the number 1 song of the The US Open.
“And the truth is that what I feel right now is that instead of taking steps forward, I took steps back in my head. And I don’t understand why, because I was coming back from a spectacular summer, from Roland Garros, from Wimbledon, and I came out of it saying that mentally I had taken a step forward, as if I had realized that to win big things or Grand Slams, you had to have a hard head,” he added.
Many questions arise as to why Carlos Alcaraz has reached this point. The one from touching the sky to Paris June 9th winner Roland Garros for the first time and London A month later, he achieved his second Wimbledon to be eliminated in the second round of US Openwhere it has already expired in 2022.
SO, OKDIARIO spoke with Here comes the eradoctorate. Sports psychology and who works with great athletes from the world of football, but especially tennis. Important names have passed through his hands, such as Garbiñe Muguruza or Jéssica BouzasAlso Alexandre Galan Currently, former world number 1 in padel.
“It’s probably one of the worst moments of his career. The defeat in the final of the Olympic Games and what happened the other day have negative consequences,” he begins by saying. Iciar Eraña. And what happened the other day? Alcaraz, in his US Open debut, The Spanish tennis player broke a racket on a tennis court for the first time, something unprecedented and something that had never happened before, surprising all the members of his team, including himself.
“I always think you compete with how you live and how you feel. I think it’s not a motivation problem. Probably a need to do well and show that you’re doing well. And that sometimes means a lot of pressure. The expectations are often not those of the player or the team, but of people outside. And it seems that Alcaraz is always expected to win and be Nadal’s successor.he continues to explain.
Alcaraz and the pressure at 21
Because let us remember, Carlos Alcaraz He’s only 21. And he’s already got four under his belt.of the Grand Slam. He became the youngest tennis player in history to win on all four surfaces, so the pressure is on and will continue to be in the years to come. And it is this same pressure that alludes to Here comes the era. “People think you can always win. So I think in tennis they compete for many weeks and in the end they are very young and you have to take it slowly. “It grew very quickly and now we have to maintain that, which is not easy.”
Comparison with other athletes
Many athletes have faced with the pressure of winning and having that one word in your vocabulary. Therefore, when they reach the elite, the stages of ups and downs are very complicated, during which defeats occur for the first time in their sporting career. How did he get to Alcaraz?who since his entry into the public sphere and the ATP circuit has had very few defeats to date. Thus, in difficult times, the problems become more pronounced. And that is what happened to the Spanish tennis player.
On the other hand, other athletes, whether in tennis, football or basketball, have progressed very little by little. Yesbeing able to face and live with defeat, without having any pressure on their shoulders and this allowed them to know how to manage difficult moments, That is, the times when everything doesn’t go as they would like.
To finish, Here gives the keys to the recovery of Alcaraz and what we need to focus on to become the same as before, the one from a few months ago when he won Roland Garros and Wimbledon in a few weeks and that means having fun on the field: “I think what we need to find a little bit is the peace of mind to have fun, to accept that there are good and bad games, to fight, to have fun, to have a good attitude.”
