Carlos Alcaraz wasn't happy with the fast court speed in Paris (Image: Getty)
Carlos Alcaraz wasn’t happy after his loss at the Paris Masters.
Carlos Alcaraz and his coach have taken drastic measures to help him prepare for the upcoming ATP Finals.
The world No. 2 was dumped out of this week’s Paris Masters in the last 16 and later complained that the court was too fast, making it difficult to train for the right conditions.
But Alcaraz should avoid the same problem in Turin as he has gone to great lengths to prepare for the year-end championships.
The court pace index for this year’s Paris Masters is 46.3, making it the fastest hard-court Masters 1000 of the year. And Alcaraz was thrown by the speed of the surface in Bercy.
He mentioned it after his opening win and doubled down after losing a three-set thriller to Ugo Humbert on Thursday night. “This is crazy. I don’t know. Probably and the fastest one, you know, in the last ten years in this tournament,” he said.
“So it surprised me a little bit, so I came here with not too many days. Probably I had to came, you know, earlier to get used to these conditions but I didn’t. But, you know, honestly all I can say is I don’t understand why they did it.”
Alcaraz has never had his best results on indoor hard courts compared to other surfaces. But he said the indoor element wasn’t a factor in Bercy – the speed was. And it looks like he’s keen to avoid a repeat at the ATP Finals.
