{"id":254308,"date":"2025-11-10T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:52:04","slug":"is-carlos-alcaraz-suffering-from-darkness-blues-he-has-given-his-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254308\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Carlos Alcaraz suffering from darkness blues? He has given his answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Roddick suggested the dark evenings could be a factor in Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s<\/a> poor form at this phase of the tennis year and now the world No 2 has responded to those comments.<\/p>\n

Roddick was assessing why Alcaraz\u2019s form appears to slide at this time of the tennis year, with the Spaniard struggling in indoor conditions in the formative phases of his career.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz lost two of his three matches at last year\u2019s ATP Finals after he crashed out of the Paris Masters in the round of 16.<\/p>\n

He lost his first match in Paris in 2023 and was not at his best at the ATP Finals after that and this year, he also slumped to an early exit in Paris after losing against Britain\u2019s Cameron Norrie.<\/a><\/p>\n

It inspired Roddick to suggest the winter darkness may be a factor in Alcaraz\u2019s less-than-convincing form when he plays in October and November.<\/p>\n

More Tennis News<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev reveals who is ATP Finals favourite between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a><\/p>\n

Andy Roddick\u2019s \u2018darkness\u2019 and \u2018personality\u2019 Carlos Alcaraz theories are not as crazy as they might seem<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a guy who relies on electricity from the crowd, he likes the atmosphere, he likes the show, he likes being an entertainer,\u201d said Roddick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you get to this part of the season where you are outside for four minutes of daylight every day. You are walking into the venue and it\u2019s light and you are walking out of the venue and every place you are playing is dark at 4:15.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like Sinner is maybe better suited personality-wise to go in and get the job done and leave, whereas Carlos maybe needs to get inspired a little bit more. Maybe that\u2019s a reach, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarlos has admittedly said I am beat up, I am mentally exhausted, it\u2019s a long season. Whereas you are not hearing that as much from Sinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen people are like there\u2019s a big difference between the two. But I\u2019m going or one had three months off during the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz was asked about this theory by Sky Sports after of his opening win against Alex de Minaur at the ATP Finals and he offered up a response that suggested Roddick\u2019s comments may have some relevance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019m Spanish, I\u2019m from Murcia, where it\u2019s sunny almost 365 days per year,\u201d said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying indoors for me is kinda weird, as I\u2019m just not used to it, but I\u2019m getting used to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people are louder and the energy is even more, which is great. You can play with the lights in some situations and it looks cool with the walk-ons and during the matches. It\u2019s great, but I just have to get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has a chance to banish the notion that he can\u2019t play his best tennis in indoor conditions by winning the ATP Finals for the first time and if he achieves that goal, he will also finish 2025 as the world No 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick suggested the dark evenings could be a factor in Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s poor form at this phase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-254308","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\/254308","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=254308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}