Alcaraz should only ask about the cultivation and not the harvest at the moment

So far in the 2025 season, Alcaraz, the world's third-largest and Spanish all-rounder, has a worrying record. Nearly three months into the season, Alcaraz has only won one title, one semi-final, two quarter-finals and one second-round report in the five tournaments he has competed in, but has suffered four defeats and suffered four heavy blows.

Looking back now, Alcaraz's four defeats are all because Alcaraz has big goals, but he is under huge psychological pressure, which leads to ups and downs in his competitive state, abnormal performance, and finally unexpected defeat, which hurts him a lot!

At the 2025 Australian Open, fans and media have high hopes for Alcaraz: if Alcaraz, born in May 2003, wins the title, he will surpass Rafael Nadal (24 years and three months), who won the US Open in 2010, and become the youngest Grand Slam winner in history (21 years and eight months). Of course, Alcaraz also used this great goal to motivate himself, but he failed to turn the great goal into a strong forward momentum, but was burdened with huge psychological pressure, and finally suddenly collapsed in the good situation of winning the first set in the quarterfinals, lost three sets in a row, and was unexpectedly eliminated by the Serbian king Djokovic who was fighting with an injury.

The ATP 500 in Doha, which has been upgraded from a 250 event to a 500 event for the first time this year, and a back-to-back tournament after Alcaraz won the ATP 500 Rotterdam in his first appearance, will surely sweep away the haze of the Australian Open's heavy blow. As a result, Alcaraz was burdened with a heavy burden and had huge psychological pressure, so that in the good situation of breaking his opponent in the first set and the deciding set, he was continuously broken by the Czech post-00 player Lehechka, and finally lost the game unexpectedly.

The Indian Wells Masters is the blessed land for Alcaraz to win the championship in 2023 and 2024 for two consecutive years, and fans and media expect Alcaraz to achieve three consecutive championships, and Alcaraz also expects himself to do so. However, just like the previous Australian Open and Doha stops, Alcaraz failed to turn his great goals into strong forward momentum, but instead carried a huge psychological pressure, and finally ended up extremely nervous and irritable before the semi-finals against the British post-00 player Draper, and even in the middle of the match, he still could not effectively eliminate these tensions, of course, it was difficult to give full play to his technical and tactical skills, and played the worst game of his career.

What's even more suffocating is that at the press conference after the semifinal loss of the Indian Wells Masters, Alcaraz, who was very injured, comforted himself in this way: "Three years ago, I lost to my predecessor idol Nadal in the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters, and then won the first Masters title of my career at the back-to-back Miami Masters, hoping that I can repeat the good play of three years ago this year." "Alcaraz has not yet seriously learned the painful lesson of the worst game of his career, he has set his goals for himself at the first time, and once again pushed himself under the huge psychological pressure of great goals.

Sure enough, in the second round of the Miami Masters, Alcaraz, who had a bye in the first round, was defeated by the 34-year-old Belgian Flash Goffin in the first game, and staged an even more tragic round of the season.

Wouldn't the painful lessons of the above four unexpected failures still make Alcaraz learn from the pain and wake up? Goal motivation is a great way to motivate players to do their best, but if a player fails to handle the motivation and pressure of a great goal, it is time to rethink and change course. The current Alcaraz is exactly that. Alcaraz has to let go of those great goals as soon as possible, build on the present moment and give it his all to play every game in every tournament. Only ask about the hard work, not the harvest, this is also said.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Colorful Bean Powder)