Carlos Alcaraz was upset by Botic van de Zandschulp who won the second round match 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 and advanced to the third round. Botic van de Zandschulp took roughly two hours and a half to hold off Alcaraz.
“It was a fight against myself, you know, in my mind during the match,” said Carlos Alcaraz in a post-match interview. “In tennis you are playing against someone that wants the same as you, to win the match, and you have to be as calm as you can just to think better in the match and try to do good things. Today I was playing against the opponent, and I was playing against myself in my mind. I mean, a lot of emotions that I couldn’t control… I was up in some points, then I lose some points, I get down. It was a rollercoaster, let’s say, in my mind. So I can’t be like that if I want to think about big things, so I have to improve it. I have to learn about it.”
“First of all, I think he played great. He played really good tennis. I thought he was going to give me more points. I’m going to say more free points, you know. He didn’t make a lot of mistakes that I thought he was going to do. So I was confused a little bit. I didn’t know how to manage that, how to deal with it,” added Alcaraz about his rival.
Botic van de Zandschulp will face Jack Draper on Saturday for a place in the fourth round.
Watch the highlights from the match below.
Watch a post-match interview below.