Pour son tournoi de reprise après près d'un mois d'absence et le premier sur terre battue depuis février à Rio, Carlos Alcaraz a atteint les quarts de finale à Madrid, avant d'être battu par un puissant Andrey Rublev ce mercredi, aux portes des demies. L'Espagnol a pris le rythme en disputant quatre matchs à haute intensité dont deux combats acharnés ces derniers jours face à Jan-Lennard Struff puis Andrey Rublev. En conférence de presse, le numéro 3 mondial était plutôt optimiste malgré la défaite. Il devrait bien enchaîner avec le Masters 1000 de Rome dès le 8 mai prochain.
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00:00He was quite good today, his serve was unbelievable today, he brought me a few opportunities in
00:18the match to break his serve, I couldn't make it, that was the key of the match, but I think
00:25his game was outstanding today, but I couldn't push him to the limits in every ball, so I
00:34think he hit the ball in a good position every time, and a player like Roulef, if he hits
00:42the ball in a good position it's almost impossible to make points to beat him, so I have to learn
00:50from this match to see how it's going to be the next one.
00:56Do you feel you can now hit your forehand normally or is it still a work in progress?
01:04I have to keep going, right now here in Madrid, every time I'm hitting the forehand I'm thinking
01:13about the forearm, if I'm going to feel it or not, and I have to work hard these days
01:22if I want to go to Rome with good feelings, without pain, without thinking about my forearm,
01:30but it's going to be a slow process I guess, and I have to be passionate in that way, but
01:39right now I leave Madrid with good feelings in the forearm, but I have to do a good work.
01:48Carlos, just following on from that, on your forearm, how much did it play a part today?
01:52It looked like you might have been trying to slice a bit more towards the end, and is
01:56there any doubt at all that you will play Rome or do you feel fine?
01:59Well, today probably I felt more in the forearm than yesterday's match, I mean playing three
02:12hours yesterday I knew that I'm going to feel something or I'm going to think about
02:22it even more, but playing someone like Rouleff, that I couldn't push him to the limit in every
02:33point is tough, but at the end of the match I sliced the forearm a bit more, it was difficult
02:45feelings at the end of the match, but the point is I'm going to go to Rome, I'm going
02:55to work this day to be close to 100% in a good way to play Rome, but I'm going to decide
03:06these days, but I think I'll be okay to play Rome.