{"id":2705,"date":"2026-08-28T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:57:25","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-warned-over-low-level-as-patrick-mouratoglou-reveals-us-open-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz warned over \u2018low level\u2019 as Patrick Mouratoglou reveals US Open worry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Mouratoglou is intrigued to see what Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>\u2019s \u201clow level\u201d is as he prepares to defend his US Open title after more than four months out injured.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has not played on the ATP Tour<\/a> since injuring his wrist in mid-April at the Barcelona Open. Many felt he would not feature at Flushing Meadows after pulling out of Cincinnati, but sure enough, the Spaniard is in the draw in New York.<\/p>\n

The seven-time major winner eased back into competitive action earlier this week when he partnered Serena Williams<\/a> in the mixed doubles event, and after two abridged matches in that revamped format, Alcaraz<\/a> seems to be fit and ready for a title defence.<\/p>\n

However, due to his lack of match practice and time out injured, question marks over his fitness will not go away. Indeed, Serena\u2019s former coach Mouratoglou<\/a> has outlined what indicators will make him \u201cworry\u201d about the third seed.<\/p>\n

He said on Instagram<\/a>, \u201cIs he ready to win the US Open<\/a>? 99% of players cannot play consistently at the very high level throughout a five-set match. The question that I will ask myself while watching Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first round is: how low is his low level?<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause his high will always be crazy high. The question is, how low is his low, but also how long does the low last? Is it going to be one full set or just one game and then, right after, he\u2019s going to break back, for example?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that will be very important. If he checks out for long periods and is very much up and down, then we can worry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz won\u2019t have much time to ease into the tournament as he faces the dangerous Roman Safiullin in the first round. This year, the Russian has risen more than 100 places in the rankings to 99 after returning from injury.<\/p>\n

He made the fourth round at Wimbledon this year, where he took Novak Djokovic to four sets, and the former world No 36 beat Alcaraz in straight sets at the 2023 Paris Masters.<\/p>\n

Either way, Alcaraz \u2013 who is at 1-1 in his head-to-head with Safiullin \u2013 is delighted to be back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said earlier this week, \u201cAfter a couple of months recovering from my injury, I miss everything. I miss this place, I miss the crowd, I miss the ball kids. <\/span>I think I couldn\u2019t have started at a better place than here, so I feel very grateful. I\u2019m just happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patrick Mouratoglou is intrigued to see what Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s \u201clow level\u201d is as he prepares to defend his US Open title after more than four months out injured. The 23-year-old has not played on the ATP Tour since injuring his wrist in mid-April at the Barcelona Open. Many felt he would not feature at Flushing […]<\/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-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","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=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}