Carlos Alcaraz brushed off a shaky start in his first match of the clay season to earn a convincing victory over Francisco Cerundolo at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n
The four-time major champion prevailed 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 against Cerundolo on Court Rainier III in the second round of the Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a> looked in trouble in the opening game of the second set as he had to fend off two break points, but he dropped just one game thereafter as he blew the world No 22 off the court.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I didn\u2019t start well,\u201d the Spaniard admitted in his\u00a0on-court interview. \u201cI just wanted to get the good pace at the beginning of the match, but I\u00a0think I made a lot of mistakes.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I let him play inside the court, dominate the points, so I was more in the defensive part.<\/p>\n \u201cSo after the first set, I just knew that I had to do something else. I had to play more aggressively, I had to play my own tennis. I just enjoy that tennis, you know, drop shots, going to the net, playing more aggressive. I think I did it pretty well.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the first and the most important adjustment was the return. I just tried to return more close to the line, just pushing him to defence [on] the first ball, and after that, playing good shots and dominate the game.\u00a0I think I did it pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Carlos Alcaraz is possibly the best in the world when he hits his best level\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Carlos Alcaraz: My Way\u2019 \u2013 All you need to know about upcoming documentary<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n After his victory, Alcaraz expressed his appreciation for this period of the tennis season as he wrote \u201cI missed clay\u201d on the camera lens.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz signs the camera after beating Cerundolo in Monte Carlo:<\/p>\n \u201cI missed clay!\u201d pic.twitter.com\/VCD8JvC69S<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Asked where he ranks clay on his list of favourite surfaces, Alcaraz said: \u201cI don\u2019t know. I always say that, until now, I always put it (clay) second, I prefer to play on hard-court.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m gonna put it first. I just missed the clay season, yeah, since the Olympic Games that I haven\u2019t played on clay.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think I love this part of the year, I love watching the matches here on clay, I grew up playing on this surface. So I\u2019m gonna put it [number] 1, first (smiles).\u201d<\/p>\n The world No 3 will play 84th-ranked Daniel Altmaier in the third round.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz identifies what is \u2018not fair\u2019 as he responds to harsh criticism of his form<\/a> The post Carlos Alcaraz reacts to shaky Monte Carlo start\u00a0as he\u00a0reveals \u2018most important adjustment\u2019\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz brushed off a shaky start in his first match of the clay season to earn a convincing victory over Francisco Cerundolo at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters. The four-time major champion prevailed 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 against Cerundolo on Court Rainier III in the second round of the Masters 1000 tournament. Alcaraz looked in […]<\/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-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n
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