NEW YORK—When Carlos Alcaraz lost his Wimbledon title to Jannik Sinner, he went back to the drawing board. Literally.
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In his post-victory press conference at the 2025 US Open, Alcaraz explained how the four-set defeat to Sinner inspired the Spaniard and his team to break down what went wrong at SW19 so he would be ready in time for a Flushing Meadows rematch:
Q. In the Wimbledon final, it felt like the match was played more on his terms, lots of baseline rallies. Today you were able to bring in more of your slices and spins and that kind of thing. I just wondered what you thought the difference was how you were able to get on top today?
CARLOS ALCARAZ: Yeah, I studied that match. I studied the Wimbledon final. As I said, I spoke with my coaches, and we saw the Wimbledon final, and yeah, we spoke about what we would have done better in that match just in case I’m going to face him in another time.
We watch it. We put everything, or we note everything, and we work on it. We just played that game. It doesn’t matter. At the beginning, we thought, okay, it doesn’t matter if you lose or he wins or I win. I just wanted to do the right things. If I’m doing the right things and he plays unbelievable match and he beat you, it’s okay, but at least you did the right things.
I think today worked really well. I did everything they told me that I had to do, and it worked. It worked pretty well.
