Carlos Alcaraz suffered a shocking defeat at the 2025 Laver Cup 2025 on Saturday night, losing to Taylor Fritz in a straight-sets drubbing. The loss came as a surprise considering the Spanish player's recent form, who had won his last two tournaments on the trot, the Cincinnati Open and the US Open.
At the press conference, Alcaraz shared his disappointment with the conditions at the tournament, especially not getting enough courts to practice on.
The World No. 1 highlighted that before other tournaments he played a lot of practice sets in the days before, but could only train for an hour a day in San Francisco since both teams - 14 players overall - had only one court to contend with.
"I think before a tournament, before the first match you have to practice. You have to play sets. You have to play points. Here, as I said, having just one court to both teams, and we are seven in the team to both teams, I barely practiced one hour per day, which for me I'm not used to do that," Alcaraz said.
"I used to practice more and coming to the first match with hours, hours on the court, feeling the ball. You know, I think here the conditions are quite different than we are used to play on the tour," he added.
Alcaraz also played doubles on Day 1 at the Laver Cup, teaming up with Jakub Mensik and winning the tie. However, the six-time Slam champion did not think that was enough for him to get in the groove.
"So I just feel like I could have loved to have more time on the court playing singles, because I played doubles, but it's not the same thing. So I prefer to have more time playing singles before coming for the first match," Alcaraz said.
Team Europe lost all four games on Day 2, and saw their 3-1 lead from Day 1 get overturned. Team World now has a 9-3 lead on the final day, and could secure the tie if they win their first two singles battles.