Davidovich's new approach after the lost finals: "The important thing is to learn from them"

Carlos Navarro | 26 Aug 2025 | 01.25

Alejandro Davidovich during his first-round match in New York. Source: Getty

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Alejandro Davidovich is facing US Open 2025 as a new opportunity to validate his progress and evolution after a year with more highlights than shadows. Unfortunately, around his figure, there is a snowball effect that grows after each lost final: the feeling that all that growth always meets a limit in title matches, a label that the man from Malaga is determined to shed through self-confidence, calmness in these situations... and experience.

Because there is no greater learning than that of defeat, and one does not learn more about oneself than in adversity. After conceding in the finals of Delray Beach, Acapulco and Washington, Alejandro Davidovich has taken valuable lessons that he unravels with the maturity acquired over time. He does this from Flushing Meadows, where he debuted with a crushing victory over Shevchenko, showing that the last of the disappointments, the loss against de Miñaur in Washington, is well and truly behind him.

"Everything is a learning curve. If you look at the Delray Beach final, after 5-2 and 15-40 I couldn't play, I was too nervous and constantly talking. In the Washington final, on the other hand, I was 5-2 up and had match points, but I kept fighting and lost in a tight tiebreak", confesses a Foki to ATP, who, through this difference between finals, provides the key why he still fully believes in himself: "That's the lesson, to stay calm in those moments. You gain that with weeks, with matches. I will have another opportunity. That's tennis. I know I will have more opportunities throughout my career. I am learning from all the finals I have been in this year, using them to know how to handle them in the future."

THE POTION TO ARRIVE MOTIVATED AT THE US OPEN

No final was as painful as the one in Washington: Davidovich was closer than ever to that coveted victory, but experienced the same bitter outcome. Following that match, of course, came two withdrawals, in Toronto and Cincinnati, which raised doubts about the physical and mental capacity of the man from Malaga after such a hard blow. If there is one aspect in which Foki shows that latent maturity, it is in admitting that the planning after the final of the American tournament was not ideal.

"In Canada, I was very tired, both physically and mentally. I was exhausted. I have never played so many matches in a year and that eventually takes its toll. Playing Toronto after Washington was not the wisest decision: I had not a single day of rest and the fatigue accumulated. I had to withdraw because I had no legs left. When you don't rest for a week, your body tells you it's too much. We reflected and realized that the important thing was to have the proper rest." How to achieve it? The solution was found after his defeat against Joao Fonseca in Cincinnati.

"The day after losing to Fonseca, I went to Miami with my wife and we spent four days doing nothing. Relaxed on the beach, enjoying good food. After those four days, I returned to Cincinnati, where I was training. I did a short week and a half of preseason, that has been my preparation to arrive here stronger." Davidovich's new plan, that of a man committed to getting rid of several thorns and doing so through learning and hard work, aims to continue bearing fruit in a US Open 2025 full of strong emotions. Next stop, Arthur Rinderknech.

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