MUTUA MADRID OPEN

May 5, 2023

Carlos Alcaraz

Press Conference

C. ALCARAZ/B. Coric

6-4, 6-3

(Press conference conducted in Spanish first.)

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.

Q. Happy Birthday. Now that you're no longer a teenager, I'm curious how much do you feel like an adult and how much do you still feel like a kid?

CARLOS ALCARAZ: Well, I would like to be a teenager a little bit more, you know, for the stats (smiling). No, I mean, I don't feel any difference, you know, to turn 20 right now.

Well, I'm just been the same person. I don't feel more adult or with more experience just for turn 20. I don't feel the difference right now.

Q. In Barcelona you spoke about how your concentration this year was better. I'd like to know in which other areas of your game have you improved over the last 12 months?

CARLOS ALCARAZ: Well, I'm gonna say just the concentration is everything, you know, to stay focused all the time, to not being up and down on the match.

I read the match better than the Carlitos last year, and I would say that's the most important thing for me, to play at the same level, to be in the same concentration all the match, and have a good physical feeling, you know.

For me, that was the key and the difference from the Carlitos last year (smiling).