It Was a Poor Stage

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday March 22, 2025

Carlos Alcaraz couldn’t discover solutions when confronted with an uptick in aggression from David Goffin on Friday night time.

Thus, the Spaniard suffered a shock loss to the 34-year-old Belgian and can head to the clay season in search of options after failing to win titles at Indian Wells, the place he was the defending two-time champion, and Miami, the place he was a former champion.

Alcaraz, who will flip 22 on Might 5, stated his effort was a little bit of a thriller to him.

“It was a poor stage from me,” Alcaraz stated, in keeping with the ATP. “I simply wished to play higher. After the primary set, I assumed I used to be going to be higher. He performed effectively, he performed good tennis. My stage did not improve. I feel his stage after the primary set elevated a bit bit.”

Alcaraz had bother dictating towards Goffin, and he dropped serve 4 occasions within the match as he fell to 15-4 on the season. Not precisely a horrible report, however not what the Spaniard, who claimed his seventeenth title of his profession at Rotterdam in February, was in search of.

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“I did not play effectively, bodily I did not really feel effectively. When you do not have the arrogance of your stage bodily, I feel it is actually robust to take care of good tennis,” he stated. “I did not really feel effectively in my legs. I wasn’t injured, I wasn’t sick. I used to be feeling completely earlier than the match.

“I felt good, a bit bit nervous, which is regular earlier than the match. However nothing greater than that. I simply felt prepared, I assumed that I used to be going to play actually good tennis. It did not occur.”