“I would say, like, for myself, I’m just making changes all the time, every tournament, every day, without someone has to tell me. Like, for example, I just changing the movement a little bit. Now with this movement on the serve, I just feel really, really comfortable, smooth, really calm and peaceful rhythm, which I think it helps me a lot to do a better serve.”
Long a (relative) weakness in the 22-year-old’s game, Alcaraz employed service tweaks to tremendous effect at the 2025 US Open, striking 10 aces and winning over 80% of first serve points to dethrone Jannik Sinner on hard courts last summer. Still, the Spaniard didn’t rule out further tweaks to his ever-evolving game.
“Let’s see how it’s going to be this year. Probably you’re going to see another change, I don’t know if the next months or at the end of the year. I just make constant changes in every shot. It’s just about really small details.”
