“I arrived in London on Saturday morning and had my first training session on grass yesterday,” Alcaraz said at a press conference on Sunday. “I haven’t been able to train too much at home because we don’t have a grass court. I have to adapt my movements and my shots to the grass, but I’m really happy with the first training I’ve had here,” he said.
On grass, he stated this Sunday, “you have to be more prudent than on other surfaces, so for me the most difficult thing on the grass is moving around (…) and the most comfortable thing is to go up to the net and play aggressively all the time, which is my style and what I like”.
Last year, Alcaraz reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon, where he lost in four sets to Italian Jannik Sinner.
At Queen’s, Alcaraz, number 2 in the world, is the first seed and will start the tournament against Frenchman Arthur Fils.