Alcaraz opens up like never before: "I even thought about stopping for several months"

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Carlos Alcaraz freed himself in a way in Monte Carlo when he won the trophy, at which point he publicly admitted for the first time that he had been through a quite difficult month with very challenging situations. His time in California and Miami took a toll on the Spaniard, who, while the whole world criticized him for a disappointing loss to Goffin in his debut, ended up having extremist thoughts about his near future.

The young man from Murcia, who usually displays great honesty with the press, already showed how his mindset changed with the start of the clay court swing. To the surprise of many, Carlitos admitted in Monaco that with the absence of Jannik Sinner, he had put more pressure on himself, while people's expectations kept rising. Focused on his inner circle and enjoying his tennis on court, Alcaraz seems to have started this new phase in the best way, a position from which he can now see with perspective what happened to him just a few weeks ago.

Miami, the last straw

"It was a combination of everything," Carlitos said about those issues in an interview with MARCA. "In Indian Wells, I thought I was playing well and off the court, I was quite calm. The defeat to Draper hurt me a lot. Then I arrived in Miami and that loss to Goffin was the final straw." The world number two admits that it was a decisive moment in this season, where he had to pause to analyze with his team what was happening. "From the tough moments, you learn the most."

One of the aspects he emphasized in Monte Carlo was that he needed to ignore what people say, focus on his family, close friends, and team, and be proud of what he does on the court, whether he wins or loses. As Carlitos explains, it was after Miami when he perhaps realized that these external factors were affecting him more than he thought, so undoubtedly that defeat against Goffin became a turning point in his season and maybe in his career. "There are many things to which we give importance that perhaps are not really important. I realized how truly important tennis is to me, and I will continue in that direction."

"I even thought about stopping for several months"

Alcaraz confesses in this interview that he even considered the idea of taking a longer break than just a few days with his loved ones to rediscover that motivation and even freshness, although that was not the only plan that crossed his mind at that rock bottom moment: "Many thoughts come to your mind: stopping, taking a week off, not going to a tournament, stopping for several months, continuing to train, taking a vacation and then training for what's next... Many thoughts came to mind." Ultimately, the decision he made was to take a few days off for rest and then start training for the clay season, and so far, it's going quite well for him.

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