{"id":51235,"date":"2025-07-09T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51235\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:12:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-admits-what-he-was-really-struggling-with-at-the-start-of-wimbledon-which-he-no-longer-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51235\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz admits what he was really struggling with at the start of Wimbledon which he no longer is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz has extended his winning streak to 23 matches as he moves one step closer to a third consecutive Wimbledon title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alcaraz beat Cameron Norrie<\/a> in straight sets on Centre Court at Wimbledon<\/a>, ending British hopes of a home champion.<\/p>\n

This is just the second time that the Spaniard has won in straight sets at Wimbledon this year, with Alcaraz sometimes accused of losing focus<\/a> during five set matches.<\/p>\n

The five-time Grand Slam champion has now admitted that he was struggling with something at the start of the tournament that almost saw him knocked out in the first round.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Peter van den Berg\/ISI Photos\/ISI Photos via Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz admits he was struggling serving at the start of Wimbledon<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has won Roland Garros<\/a>, Queen\u2019s<\/a> and the Italian Open<\/a> titles on his current winning streak, but that all looked to be coming undone in his first round match against Fabio Fognini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his first round match, Fognini pushed Alcaraz to five sets<\/a> and left him looking a frustrated figure at times on court.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When looking back on his performances at the start of the tournament compared to now, Alcaraz<\/a> admitted that his serve in particular was a weakness. <\/p>\n

However, he has now found his rhythm again, something that Alcaraz believes started against Andrey Rublev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggled a little bit in the first rounds of the tournament trying to improve a little bit,\u201d Alcaraz said in his post-match press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was the throw of the ball or just the rhythm but I just got it on Rublev\u2019s match and started to play really good. The percentage went higher. The winning point on the first serve was higher as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I started to throw the ball on the serve much better and I think that helped a lot, coming on the serve. <\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I got the good rhythm and throw of the ball I started to serve much better and I think today I tried to follow the same way that I served in Rublev\u2019s match so hopefully keep it going and keep feeling the good way again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

How have Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s serving statistics changed throughout Wimbledon this year?<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s claim about his serve improving from his fourth round match against Rublev<\/a> are supported by the statistics.<\/p>\n

The world number two served his most number of aces and least double faults in that match, and improved in some areas in his quarter-final against Norrie<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The only area of concern for Alcaraz will be that his second serve percentage was at its lowest point against Norrie, winning just seven of his 21 points on it.<\/p>\n

However, it was the only match that Alcaraz has not been broken once in.<\/p>\n\nAlcaraz\u2019s Serve (Wimbledon 2025)<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst Round (Vs Fabio Fognini)<\/td>\nSecond Round (Vs Oliver Tarvet)<\/td>\nThird Round (Vs Jan-Lennard Struff)<\/td>\nFourth Round (Vs Andrey Rublev)<\/td>\nQuarter-final (Vs Cameron Norrie)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAces<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDouble Faults<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Serve %<\/td>\n58%<\/td>\n65%<\/td>\n58%<\/td>\n67%<\/td>\n72%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Serve Win %<\/td>\n70%<\/td>\n69%<\/td>\n73%<\/td>\n82%<\/td>\n89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Serve Win %<\/td>\n52%<\/td>\n53%<\/td>\n62%<\/td>\n63%<\/td>\n33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGames Broken<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Next up for Alcaraz is another big server in Taylor Fritz<\/a>, who will be playing in his first ever Wimbledon semi-final.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has beaten Fritz<\/a> in their only two previous meetings, but it will be the first time they have played on grass.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has extended his winning streak to 23 matches as he moves one step closer to a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,1466,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-51235","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114822981254818080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}