{"id":2107,"date":"2026-04-28T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:00:59","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-told-one-of-his-biggest-qualities-may-have-a-negative-impact-on-his-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz told one of his biggest qualities may have a negative impact on his game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The variety in Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s<\/a> game may be one of his trump cards, but it can also affect his decision making negativity during matches.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the verdict of former Great Britain Davis Cup player Danny Sapsford, who believes the 22-year-old has so many options on each shot that it can impact his clarity of thought at key moments.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz, who is currently out of the game nursing a wrist injury that will keep him out of next month\u2019s French Open<\/a>, has already won seven Grand Slam titles in the opening few years of his career to put himself on a pedestal alongside some of the game\u2019s all-time greats.<\/p>\n

And when Sapsford, who played Pete Sampras in the third round at Wimbledon back in 1999, gave his verdict on Alcaraz\u2019s sumptuous talents, he suggested the options at his disposal can blur his focus when he weighs up a shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlcaraz is pretty sensational, and I must admit,\u201d said Sapsford, in an exclusive interview with Tennis365.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe one thing I find without Alcaraz is he\u2019s almost too good for his own good and that means concentration slips a little bit during a match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wasn\u2019t so talented, he\u2019d probably need to focus more like I had to. I felt like my tennis game wasn\u2019t very good, but I made up for it with my intensity and my concentration and my mental strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlcaraz is so good from a tennis point of view and a shop making point of view and he seems to be able to play every single shot in the book and every single style that you want him to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as a result, his mental approach is sometimes a little bit lax. And I think the time to beat him is early on in the tournament where he\u2019s not where he\u2019s not totally dialled in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as soon as he gets through to quarter-finals and semi-finals, like there\u2019s no touching him and no stopping him.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Sapsford compares Alcaraz to his great rival Jannik Sinner<\/a>, he sees comparisons with the great champion who has set the records both are chasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say Sinner is a bit robotic, but he\u2019s like Novak Djokovic in some ways. He has that sort of tunnel vision,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an argument that it can be a little one-dimensional, whereas someone like Alcaraz, if he wants to play from the back, he can. If he wants to serve volley, he can do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants to mess you around with drop shots and angles and lobs and what have you, he can. So Alcaraz is certainly more of a complete player.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinner is an unbelievable ball striker. I go and watch the players practice at Wimbledon every year and Sinner may be the purest ball striker I\u2019ve seen there. It\u2019s like, it\u2019s unbelievable how well he strikes the ball and his timing is second to none.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing you would say is he is slightly more one-dimensional than Alcaraz. So if plan A is not working, he doesn\u2019t always have a plan B to fall back on.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLuckily for him, Plan A works 99% of the time, but now that Alcaraz has come along, sometimes he does need a Plan B.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what, I guess, he\u2019s been working on a little bit with Darren Cahill and his coaching team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sapsford is leading the inspirational Bright Ideas for Tennis charity<\/a> that provides opportunities for people who wouldn\u2019t otherwise get the chance to experience tennis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The variety in Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s game may be one of his trump cards, but it can also affect his decision making negativity during matches. That\u2019s the verdict of former Great Britain Davis Cup player Danny Sapsford, who believes the 22-year-old has so many options on each shot that it can impact his clarity of thought […]<\/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-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","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=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}