{"id":438641,"date":"2025-09-20T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438641\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:40:13","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-admits-why-he-felt-a-little-bit-lost-at-the-laver-cup-following-his-doubles-match-with-jakub-mensik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438641\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz admits why he felt &#8216;a little bit lost&#8217; at the Laver Cup following his doubles match with Jakub Mensik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Carlos Alcaraz played his first match at this year\u2019s Laver Cup in doubles alongside Jakub Mensik against Taylor Fritz and Alex Michelsen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playing his first doubles match since the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/davis-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Cup Finals<\/a>, Alcaraz took some time to adjust to things in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Pushed hard by the American duo, the first set of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/laver-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laver Cup<\/a> clash was decided in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236357493-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Fritz and Alex Michelsen celebrate at the 2025 Laver Cup\" class=\"wp-image-131130\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Edging into a 7-6 [9-7] lead, Mensik and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alcaraz<\/a> stepped into another gear in the second, securing a 7-6, 6-4 win.<\/p>\n<p>Despite giving Team Europe a 3-1 lead, the Spaniard wasn\u2019t too pleased with his performance as he admitted he felt \u2018lost\u2019 at points during the match.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz felt \u2018a little bit lost\u2019 playing his first doubles match in almost a year<\/p>\n<p>During his post-match press conference, Alcaraz assessed his performance against Fritz\/Michelsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad, to be honest, but you know, it is my first doubles, I would say, since Davis Cup last year. I felt a little bit lost sometimes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I just had to be closer to the net. Like, for example, at that point I didn\u2019t, but yeah, I mean, today there were great points in the doubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said in the interview on court, I think thanks to Jakub [Mensik] that he pushed from the baseline, great serves on the net. It just felt comfortable to do great shots. It was a good match, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236358519-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz looks on during his opening doubles match at the 2025 Laver Cup\" class=\"wp-image-131128\" \/>Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz was then asked if he felt it was important to secure the win in doubles, after a string of disappointing high-profile results for Spaniards in the discipline.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>2022 Laver Cup Day one \u2013 Roger Federer and <strong>Rafael Nadal<\/strong> lost to Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock<\/li>\n<li>2024 Olympics QF \u2013 <strong>Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal<\/strong> lost to Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek<\/li>\n<li>2025 US Open 1R \u2013 <strong>Carlos Alcaraz <\/strong>and Emma Raducanu lost to Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely feels great today after the win, yeah. I remember last year, for example, that I lost the first doubles on the first day, so obviously every time that I get the win, you know, in doubles, it feels great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t usually play doubles, but every time that I play doubles, I love it. I just have fun, play great. I feel great on court. You know, having a team, the players that I\u2019m playing with, and every time that I lose, I feel bad, because I always want to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win is special. It\u2019s the first win that I have with the white hair (smiling). It\u2019s great that the first match that I played with Jakub went that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mensik was also happy with his efforts, having won two matches on day one of the Laver Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Mensik says he and Carlos Alcaraz played \u2018really well\u2019 together<\/p>\n<p>The young Czech star played America\u2019s Michelsen in his Laver Cup debut, securing the win in a ten-point tiebreaker, 6-1, 6-7, [10-8].<\/p>\n<p>Returning for the doubles, Mensik improved his Laver Cup record to 2-0, capping off a strong day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, first day, it\u2019s tough. Yeah, for me especially for my debut. I\u2019m happy with my performance in the singles and also in doubles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Carlos [Alcaraz], I think we were playing really well. We were completing each other on the returns, on the serves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe showed a really good performance, which, even if it is for one point, every point counts. Every point is so, so important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m really happy that I brought two points to the team today. Yeah, of course, hopefully let\u2019s keep it up for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Europe now leads Team World 3-1 after the first day of Laver Cup action.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Match<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Loser<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (Casper Ruud)<\/td>\n<td>Team World (Reilly Opelka)<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (1-0) Team World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (Jakub Mensik)<\/td>\n<td>Team World (Alex Michelsen)<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (2-0) Team World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Team World (Joao Fonseca)<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (Flavio Cobolli)<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (2-1) Team World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (Carlos Alcaraz\/Jakub Mensik)<\/td>\n<td>Team World (Taylor Fritz\/Alex Michelsen)<\/td>\n<td>Team Europe (3-1) Team World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Day one of the 2025 Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Day two of the Laver Cup will offer up two points per win, giving Team World a chance to move level with their opponents after just one match.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell who will emerge victorious as Laver Cup action continues on Saturday, September 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz played his first match at this year\u2019s Laver Cup in doubles alongside Jakub Mensik against Taylor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,6359,35716,16144,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-438641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-jakub-mensik","11":"tag-laver-cup","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115236911999591871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438641","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=438641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}