{"id":187703,"date":"2025-06-16T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187703\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:04:08","slug":"buoyant-carlos-alcaraz-to-continue-with-his-mid-season-party-breaks-carlos-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187703\/","title":{"rendered":"Buoyant Carlos Alcaraz to continue with his mid-season party breaks | Carlos Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz says he plans to carry on with his annual post-French Open trips after unwinding from his \u00adhistoric five-set triumph over Jannik Sinner<\/a> in Paris last weekend with three days of partying in Ibiza.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably,\u201d the Spaniard said on Sunday as he was preparing for Queen\u2019s Club, which starts on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of the middle of the season. It\u2019s really, really intense, the clay season. So soon after Roland Garros is the best moment to go anywhere. My friends are going Ibiza every year. So I thought I\u2019ll go to Ibiza as well. But it doesn\u2019t matter the place you\u2019re going, it\u2019s time to turn off your mind a little bit, to reset physically, mentally and coming back to the grass season as good as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, a short, sweet trip to Ibiza after a clay-court season has become Alcaraz\u2019s annual mid-season excursion and his \u00adpresence there has received \u00adsignificant attention on social media. His Netflix documentary this year revealed his previous trip had drawn objections from members of his team who believed that he should be more disciplined. Last year Alcaraz followed up his time off in Ibiza by winning his second Wimbledon title, defeating Novak Djokovic for a second consecutive year<\/a> in the final. Unsurprisingly, there were no objections this time: \u201cThey didn\u2019t [object],\u201d he said. \u201cThey knew at the beginning that I was going to go, 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, Alcaraz said, his experience was far calmer. \u201cOnce I went to bed so late. That\u2019s the craziest thing [I did]. Obviously I did some shots as well, but nothing more than that. More chill and as a normal person does.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time away, the \u00adSpaniard had more time to reflect on the \u00addecisive role he played in one of the great grand slam finals as he recovered from triple championship point down to defeat his great rival after 5hr 29min on court.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz reacts to his epic victory against Jannik Sinner in the French Open final. Photograph: Robert Szaniszlo\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201c[There are] a lot of videos from that match, from that moment, match point down and I still watch it sometimes, and I still don\u2019t believe that I come back from that moment,\u201d he said. \u201cSo sometimes it\u2019s difficult to realise that I\u2019m in this position, that I won the French Open, watching the videos from 40-love, in that moment. So I\u2019m still watching those videos.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz is the top seed at Queen\u2019s this week and the second seed is Jack Draper, the British No 1, who will tackle his first grass-court season as a top player and try to navigate all the pressure that comes with it. Draper, who defeated Alcaraz here last year<\/a>, faces Jenson Brooksby in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz says he plans to carry on with his annual post-French Open trips after unwinding from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690356946262123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}