Carlos Alcaraz has been told his attitude and body language left a lot to be desired during his Paris Masters exit with a renowned journalist reminding him that Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer \u201cmanaged to win because they fought with humility\u201d.<\/p>\n
After reaching nine consecutive top-level finals \u2013 including three Grand Slam finals in a row \u2013 Alcaraz<\/a> started the final ATP 1000 tournament of the season as the heavy favourite alongside Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n But the world No 1 produced an erratic display during his second-round match at La D\u00e9fense Arena as he went down 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Cameron Norrie<\/a>, who is currently at No 31 in the ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n Alcaraz\u2019s frustrations often boiled over and he was involved in several heated discussions with his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero.<\/p>\n The six-time Grand Slam winner was told by Ferrero to \u201cSee what you are doing well and correct it\u201d, but the 22-year-old fired back saying, \u201cI\u2019m doing everything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n He was also unhappy with the speed of the court as he vented: \u201cI don\u2019t feel it. Zero! I feel nothing. This is worse than Monte Carlo.\u201d<\/p>\n The defeat was Alcaraz\u2019s first before a final since the Miami Open in March when he was beaten in the round of 64 by David Goffin.<\/p>\n And he is now in danger of losing the No 1 spot in the ATP Rankings<\/a> to Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s full press conference after shock loss \u2013 \u2018I just want to be back home\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Former world No 1 reveals how Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s \u2018unpredictability\u2019 worked against him in Paris Masters exit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n French tennis journalist Beno\u00eet Maylin cautioned Alcaraz during the Sans Filet programme as he urged the Spaniard to take a leaf out of Djokovic, Nadal and Federer\u2019s book when it comes to winning matches when not playing well.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019ve played nine finals in a row and you\u2019ve just beaten Norrie at Wimbledon, you obviously come into this tournament thinking, \u2018Let\u2019s keep going, I\u2019m untouchable, I\u2019m going to get through my rounds\u2019,\u201d Maylin said.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t like his attitude. I didn\u2019t like his body language, getting angry, telling himself he couldn\u2019t do it. You have to be able to win when you\u2019re playing badly, as your illustrious predecessors did.<\/p>\n \u201cNadal, Djokovic and Federer didn\u2019t always play their best tennis, but they managed to win because they fought with humility.<\/p>\n \u201cRafa would never have had such an attitude on the court. He needs to be careful not to let a little ego take hold.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone says that Sinner and Alcaraz are untouchable, so he hears it too. He\u2019s such a star that he also needs to know how to come back down to earth, go deep into the mine with Norrie, get out the pickaxe and win matches like that.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz told \u2018Rafael Nadal would never have had such an attitude on court\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz has been told his attitude and body language left a lot to be desired during his Paris Masters exit with a renowned journalist reminding him that Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer \u201cmanaged to win because they fought with humility\u201d. After reaching nine consecutive top-level finals \u2013 including three Grand Slam finals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n