Carlos Alcaraz physically pricked before Novak Djokovic, lost their first Roland Garros semifinal 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-1. He didn’t make excuses, he was clear and loud about a situation that hurt him, which he didn’t expect and shouldn’t happen again in the future.
“I was disappointed with myself. The tension and demands of the first two sets hurt me. I was really crazy. I started getting cramps at the end of the second set, first in my arms and then in my legs. . Cramps I’m all over my body. It’s hard to handle ramps,” he explained.
He didn’t back down because “I want to hold on to the one percent I saw in the fourth set. Also, my head will eat a lot and it will hurt even more to back down in the semifinal of the Grand Slam.”
“I teach it more mentally. I entered more tense than necessary and I didn’t know how to relax. I had extra tension and even Djokovic squeezes you, adds more tension”, reflected of Murcian.
At 20 years old, even after becoming the US Open champion, he is thinking about the future. “They are experiences for the future, so it won’t happen again. I had cramps in the past but I had never felt the same. You have to learn from this so it won’t happen again. I am positive and I take a lot of experience from everyone of this.”
I am in front of a legend. “It’s not easy to play a Grand Slam semifinal and more so with Novak,” he admitted. The Serbian put up a very tactical and intense fight, seeking to impose the wisdom of a 36-year-old great.
Source: La Verdad
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