Carlos Alcaraz has admitted his focus has been lost in recent weeks and he needs to get it back quickly to avoid an alarming collapse in his ATP Ranking.<\/p>\n
After his shock defeat against David Goffin in his first match at the Miami Open, Alcaraz missed out on a glorious chance to gain some valuable ranking points as he looks to protect his position in the top three of the ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n
The concern for Alcaraz will be that the huge proportion of the ranking points current on his record come from his wins at the French Open and Wimbledon last summer, where he collected 4,000 ranking points.<\/p>\n
Take those points from his record and Alcaraz would slide out of the top 10 of the ATP Rankings and that is a strong possibility given his recent form and comments.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz will not be able to make any strides forward in the rankings in the next two Grand Slam events and can only lose points in those tournaments.<\/p>\n
While he will have a chance to gain some ranking points in the European clay court season ahead of the second Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros, the 21-year-old is in danger of sliding down the ATP list over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
His lacklustre performances in defeats against Jack Draper in Indian Wells and the veteran Goffin in Miami came after he publicly admitted he was \u2018very nervous\u2019 ahead of his defeat in the first of those two matches.<\/p>\n
That led some to suggest Alcaraz made a mistake when he opened up on his vulnerabilities in a press conference and he did something similar after the loss against Goffin.<\/p>\n
\u201cMentally, I\u2019m screwed, to be honest,\u201d said Alcaraz. \u201cThis is a tournament where I want to do well, and losing in the first round hurts a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this part of the season very well; I\u2019ve played great tennis in the past at these tournaments, but after what happened today, I don\u2019t really know what to say.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was feeling good after Indian Wells, but now with this loss, I don\u2019t know what to say.<\/p>\n
\u2018I expected more from Zverev, Alcaraz and even Djokovic in Sinner\u2019s absence\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz and Jack Draper shocks leave one clear winner at Miami Open<\/a><\/p>\n He also admitted he was nervous prior to the Goffin match, but suggested that was a positive sign.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt great, I was fine, just a little nervous as usual before every match, but nothing out of the ordinary in these types of situations, nothing I hadn\u2019t felt before,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt prepared, convinced I could put on a good level of tennis, but in the end it just wasn\u2019t to be. I did everything right before the match; it wasn\u2019t a question of an injury or any other pain; I was fine before the match.<\/p>\n \u201cI did have the feeling after the first set that this match was going to be tougher than previous ones, then I started to feel a little more tired in my legs, especially at the end of the second set.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz\u2019s incredible rise in tennis has been a story of relentless success so far, but now there are question marks over whether the youngster is vulnerable after a shaky start to 2025.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Patrick Mouratoglou admits Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s \u2018unusual\u2019 comments may come back to haunt him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz facing huge threat of a rankings collapse unless he finds his best form<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz has admitted his focus has been lost in recent weeks and he needs to get it back quickly to avoid an alarming collapse in his ATP Ranking. After his shock defeat against David Goffin in his first match at the Miami Open, Alcaraz missed out on a glorious chance to gain some valuable […]<\/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-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}