The date when Alcaraz's season changed

The Spaniard's season completely changed on that date.

Winner of a new Grand Slam at the US Open this Sunday against Jannik Sinner, his 6th career, Carlos Alcaraz has nevertheless experienced difficult moments this season. "The defeat against Draper in Indian Wells hurt me a lot. Then I arrived in Miami and this defeat against Goffin was the straw that broke the camel's back. We had to stop, reflect and see what was happening. That moment helped me a lot. It's from the bad moments that you learn the most. I especially learned to focus on the essentials. There are many things that we give importance to that perhaps are not really important," the tennis player told MARCA. And since then, six other trophies have been added in just five months, including his fifth and sixth major, respectively at Roland Garros and the US Open.

And in March, on the 21st, Alcaraz decided to isolate himself, to take refuge with his family in Mexico, a date that changed everything about his season. " It was incredible for me, during my vacation in Mexico, to ask my team to send me to physical training, to send me to train, because I didn't want to lose shape. Even if I stayed there for five days, I wanted to continue training, going to the gym, I wanted to prepare myself so that I could train when I returned and that it wouldn't cost me anything to start. In the last few days, I was already saying to my parents and Albert (my agent): "I want to go home now." And my little brother told me that he wanted to stay another week. I needed to go home. And that's when I realized that it had done me good. It's when I play with desire in a tournament that I really enjoy myself."