Carlos Alcaraz has shed light on how he handles pressure and his mindset in decisive moments as he revealed a key aspect of his approach is \u201cnot a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four-time Grand Slam winner is set to compete at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters, where he is the No 2 seed.<\/p>\n
Speaking on an episode of the\u00a0Louis Vuitton<\/a> podcast,\u00a0Alcaraz<\/a>\u00a0discussed a range of topics \u2013 and gave a clear definition of\u00a0his playing style.<\/p>\n \u201cI really want to be aggressive all the time,\u201d he explained. \u201cI really want to get to the net as soon as possible, hit big shots. Playing aggressively, that\u2019s my style.\u201d<\/p>\n The world No 3 divulged that he leans into this aggressive mindset when dealing with pressure in matches.<\/p>\n \u201cI always think that I have to go for it,\u201d Alcaraz continued. \u201cNormally when I feel the pressure is in the tight moments, in the difficult moments in the match that I could lose, I could be down in the match.<\/p>\n \u201cIn those moments, it\u2019s like, \u2018okay, I have to go for it, I have to play my style, believe in myself.\u2019 If I lose it, I\u2019d feel at least\u00a0 \u2013 I really want it to feel like I went for it, it couldn\u2019t happen, so it\u2019s okay. But go for it every time. That helped me a lot to deal with the pressure during the matches.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you believe in yourself, when you think that you\u2019re the best in what you\u2019re doing and go for it and go forward all the time, everything is gonna happen, or everything is gonna be easy at least.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving that good mindset, it is always helpful. So in tennis, it is pretty important thinking you are the best, you are gonna win every match, you are not gonna lose. In those moments, I am thinking, \u2018go for it, you are gonna make it.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I don\u2019t enjoy. Most of the time I enjoy, I don\u2019t feel the pressure a lot. But sometimes it\u2019s really difficult to separate the pressure and having fun.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re playing for something really big, when the pressure and nerves are there and it is difficult to deal with. When the things are not going in the way I want to be, it\u2019s tough to accept it sometimes.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz reveals the aspects of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal he wants to emulate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz rankings target takes as hit as he is handed nightmare Monte-Carlo Masters draw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut yeah, as I said, I think this is the position that I really wanted to be when I was a kid. It\u2019s a dream that I\u2019m coming true, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m trying not to feel or not to think about the pressure and just having fun, because I made my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n The Spaniard admitted matches have slipped away from him as a result of relaxing and losing intensity.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes in a match, you relax yourself, \u2018okay, I\u2019m winning.\u2019 And you\u2019re starting to play with less intensity, you\u2019re not moving the same way that you were before,\u201d said the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n \u201cThat happened to me a few times, and at the end of the match I lost it because of it, so I try to learn from those matches and keep the same intensity all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz went on to suggest that his reliance on instinct in decisive moments can be a problem.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it is instinct, which I think is not a good thing, because sometimes in the decisive moments, in the really close ones, difficult ones, I do what I feel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it\u2019s good, sometimes \u2013 I think most of the time \u2013 it\u2019s not too good. You have to follow a strategy, let\u2019s say a pattern.<\/p>\n \u201cBut whatever I feel, I do it. Let\u2019s say to do a dropshot, I do it. If I feel like going to the net, I do it. A lot of times did pretty well, a lot of times did it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Tim Henman gives his verdict on Carlos Alcaraz form and Jack Draper\u2019s Wimbledon hopes<\/a> The post Carlos Alcaraz opens up on his tennis philosophy and reveals one thing that is \u2018not good\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz has shed light on how he handles pressure and his mindset in decisive moments as he revealed a key aspect of his approach is \u201cnot a good thing.\u201d The four-time Grand Slam winner is set to compete at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters, where he is the No 2 seed. Speaking on an […]<\/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-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n