There’s a certain kind of grin that stretches across Carlos Alcaraz’s lips when discussing the 2025 U.S. Open. He didn’t lose a set until Jannik Sinner nicked one off him in the final, the briefest of speed bumps during a stampede of a fortnight.
But he wasn’t about to bottle and repeat his Grand Slam excellence. It was time to tinker. The sport’s most gifted player may also be its greatest tinkerer, as clips from his practices on social media so often show.
Maybe that’s what makes the greatest ones greater than the rest. To everyone else, they are perfect. To them, that means they need to make some changes to stay ahead.
This time, he promises, he’s feeling “a really comfortable, smooth, really calm and peaceful rhythm.” And yet, no matter how comfortable he is, he also promises he will continue to tinker:
💬 “Probably you’re going to see another change. I don’t know if next month or at the end of the year. I just make constant changes in every shot.”
Of course, the outcome almost never changes.
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