“One thing that I learned was about not thinking about anything the people say to me, or not the real people, my close people, my team, my family, or my close friends,” said Alcaraz, who will face Dusan Lajovic. “I’m trying just to think not about that. Yeah, I hear good things, bad things about that. So, I just want to keep in my path, keep in my own way.
“I’m not going to say ‘the fight,’ but the conversation we have, coach and player, we all have it. We all have that conversations about everything: about the tournaments, the practices, the things that I want to do that I probably don’t have to.
“Whoever says they don’t have it, they lie. I think that’s the beauty, you know, having mixed feelings, mixed point of view. At the end we go in the same path. We go all together. So, I think that’s beautiful, as well. I think that’s what I saw in the commentary, as well.”
Alcaraz is set to play his first match since withdrawing from the Mutua Madrid Open due to an adductor injury he picked up the week before in the finals of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell.
