The beginning of the brand new season is getting nearer and nearer and all of the gamers are getting ready with nice meticulousness. Carlos Alcaraz is undoubtedly one of the anticipated males in 2025, during which he’ll attempt to add different vital titles to his palmarés and return to the highest of the ATP rating.
It is not going to be a simple feat for the younger Spaniard, who must enhance particularly when it comes to consistency to have an opportunity to overhaul his nice rival Jannik Sinner (until the latter is disqualified by the CAS in Lausanne). The Italian ace has proven merely distinctive consistency in 2024, during which he has collected 73 victories whereas struggling solely six losses, a powerful stability that has allowed him to create a niche of virtually 5000 factors from Carlitos.
Though Alcaraz gained Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the identical yr, he completed the season in third place within the ATP rating even behind Alexander Zverev. The Spaniard’s peaks frighten all opponents, however the 21-year-old from Murcia remains to be unable to keep up the identical depth for your entire yr and this has repercussions on the ATP rating.
The present world quantity 3 is working towards onerous in Spain collectively along with his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero and can fly to Australia instantly after Christmas, with a purpose to get used to the situations and local weather. The 4-time Grand Slam champion needs to start out the season with a prestigious success, with a purpose to accumulate factors and confidence for the next months.
Replace on Alcaraz’s schedule in 2025
As everybody is aware of, there’s something new in Carlos’ crew. Ferrero is not going to be his solely coach in 2025, however there will even be Samuel Lopez (who ended his lengthy collaboration with Pablo Carreno Busta). In a protracted interview with Punto de Break, Lopez revealed that Alcaraz’s schedule within the first a part of 2025 shall be completely different than lately.
“We’ve got the planning carried out, however I can’t inform you off the highest of my head,” he defined. “Juan Carlos will begin the yr in Australia, after which I do Rotterdam and I believe Dubai.
“Then they’ll go to Indian Wells and Miami; when the clay courtroom season begins, I’ll take over, however for instance, tournaments like Barcelona or Madrid, we’ll in all probability share. At Roland Garros and Wimbledon, we’re each there.
“I begin the American tour, and Juan Carlos joins in on the US Open. Within the Asian tour, we’ll break up a few tournaments every. I’ve all of it roughly mapped out in my head” – Samuel added.
Though the brand new season has not but begun, Carlitos’ presence in Barcelona, at Queen’s and the Laver Cup has already been introduced. As well as, the previous world No. 1 will play an exhibition match with Frances Tiafoe in Puerto Rico in early March, simply earlier than defending her title in Indian Wells.
The 4-time Grand Slam champion is aware of the place he wants to enhance to turn out to be even higher and win extra Main titles, which is his most important objective at this stage of his profession. The younger Spaniard could be very bold and has by no means hidden that he needs to turn out to be among the best gamers of all time. Alcaraz has the fitting expertise to realize this feat, however he’ll at all times have to remain motivated and by no means lose the will to enhance (because the Large 3 did).
Roddick warns Carlitos
Throughout 2024, the previous world No. 1 complained a number of instances concerning the ATP calendar. The 21-year-old from Murcia claims that the season is simply too lengthy and the gamers shouldn’t have the fitting time to relaxation. Nonetheless, Carlitos has performed a number of exhibitions in latest months. The Spaniard was one of many protagonists of the ‘Six Kings Slam’ in October and performed two exhibition matches in the USA in early December (with Shelton and Tiafoe).
On the newest version of his well-known podcast, former ATP ace Andy Roddick took slightly shot to the Spaniard: “I get the criticism of, ‘don’t complain concerning the schedule after which go play exhibitions.’ I’m not going to inform you that’s unsuitable as a result of I believe it too.
An instance that pops into my thoughts — and I don’t need to fireplace strays at this man as a result of I really like him.
“I believe he’s phenomenal, I believe he’s a accountable citizen, however like Casper Ruud went and did that week in South America with Rafa Nadal and bought off to a gradual begin the following season.
What I don’t settle for is, ‘Hey, I didn’t have a protracted sufficient low season.’ I don’t need to hear about it in Australia if he’s not feeling nice. That’s it. I don’t need to hear about it.”
