{"id":250648,"date":"2025-11-08T05:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:06:18","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-has-questions-to-answer-ahead-of-atp-finals-says-grand-slam-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250648\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has &#8216;questions&#8217; to answer ahead of ATP Finals, says Grand Slam legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Justine Henin has shared her thoughts on Carlos Alcaraz ahead of the 2025 ATP Finals and claimed are \u201cquestions\u201d for the Spanish star to answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a> arrives at the ATP Finals in Turin after suffering a shock defeat to Cameron Norrie in his opening match at the Paris Masters last week.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Grand Slam champion committed 54 unforced errors in what was arguably the worst performance of his stellar 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Justine Henin\u2019s verdict on Carlos Alcaraz ahead of the ATP Finals<\/p>\n<p>Justine Henin assessed that indoor conditions remain a hurdle that Carlos Alcaraz must overcome ahead of the 2025 ATP Finals<br \/>\nThe seven-time major champion\u00a0feels, though, that the Spaniard \u201cseems to have a lot of potential to perform well\u201d indoors<br \/>\nAlcaraz holds a losing career record at the ATP Finals, and Henin said he will have to deal with \u201cfatigue\u201d and \u201cpressure\u201d at the event<\/p>\n<p>Following his defeat in Paris, Alcaraz holds a 31-14 career record on indoor hard courts, giving him a win rate of 68.9% on the surface. This is well below Alcaraz\u2019s overall career win percentage across all surfaces, which is 81.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old won his only indoor title to date at the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam in February.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2025 ATP Finals, which will begin on November 9, Alcaraz has been drawn in the Jimmy Connors Group with Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/atp-finals-does-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-have-best-group-stage-draw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Finals: Does Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner have the best group-stage draw?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/who-will-atp-finals-alternates-be-if-novak-djokovic-withdraws-auger-aliassime-musetti\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will the ATP Finals alternates be if Auger-Aliassime or Musetti replaces Djokovic? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Henin said about Alcaraz<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Eurosport France, Henin argued Alcaraz has a point to prove at this year\u2019s season-ending championships in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are still some questions for Alcaraz in indoor conditions, even though he seems to have a lot of potential to perform well in those conditions,\u201d said the Belgian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way around it, it\u2019s still a hurdle to overcome. It\u2019s the end of the season, even though he\u2019s had some time off these last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll have to manage the fatigue from the whole season, the pressure of the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tournament where he\u2019s never been able to shine as he would have liked, knowing that Sinner will arrive in top form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s ATP Finals record?<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz holds a 3-4 (42.9%) record rom his two previous appearances at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard first qualified for the prestigious event in 2022, but he was forced to withdraw due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>On his debut in 2023, Alcaraz won two of his three round robin matches to reach the semi-finals, where he lost to Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz then exited at the round robin stage last year after losing two of his three matches having struggled with illness prior to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/prize-money-alcaraz-sinner-djokovic-zverev-earned-2025-ahead-of-atp-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prize money earned by Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic, Zverev in 2025 ahead of ATP Finals revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Justine Henin has shared her thoughts on Carlos Alcaraz ahead of the 2025 ATP Finals and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}