Carlos Alcaraz’s 2025 US Open run will go down in history as one of his most dominant Grand Slam performances ever.
After all, he stormed into the final without dropping a single set, and concluded the tournament with the title, having been broken just three times.
It was a supreme two weeks of serving, paired with his usual enthralling play style that never fails to draw a crowd.
However, the desperate clamour to see as much of the Spaniard as possible will perhaps take its toll eventually.
That is a fear outlined by The Tennis Podcast’s David Law, who spoke about Carlos Alcaraz’s schedule following this US Open and explained why it worries him.
Carlos Alcaraz’s post-US Open schedule questioned
Chatting on that aforementioned podcast, the commentator claimed: “The reaction to Wimbledon is what I think triggered it, and the rest he’s taken after Wimbledon, which I think was very sensible to just freshen himself up mentally, and then to go again and to be just this dedicated.
“But I also do think something Juan Carlos Ferrero said is also fair comments and stands up to scrutiny. He’s getting a little older. He’s maturing. He’s learning about himself and about circumstances and situations.”
And yet, despite the success earned after this rest, Alcaraz clearly is ready to finish the season with a busy calendar, as Law continued: “I am still worried, maybe irrationally, but I am worried about the number of exhibitions that he signs up to.
“He signed up to the Saudi Arabia one. He signed up to one in December. Laver Cup’s kind of an exhibition. You know, I don’t think you need to play all these things, and I worry that for his sake, that he gets injured, or he gets burnt out.
“But, you know, look, I was saying that a year ago, it’s gone pretty well this year, hasn’t it?”
Having now returned to the world number one spot, Sam Querrey was forced to apologise for his Alcaraz prediction made last year about where he thought he’d finish in the rankings.
Carlos Alcaraz will want his full focus to be on the Australian Open
Whilst this US Open title marks the perfect end to the Grand Slam campaign for Alcaraz, it does little for his grand ambition of completing the career slam as young as possible.
This year marked his first chance at finishing it off in Melbourne, but losing in the quarter-finals to Novak Djokovic shocked many.
However, brushing that aside to win majors in both Paris and New York suggests he has not let that failure bother him much at all.
In fact, the busyness of this schedule could be related to Alcaraz’s desire to maintain his remarkable form and try to push his momentum into January when he returns to Melbourne.
With six Grand Slam titles across all three surfaces, he is clearly a threat wherever he goes.
It will be really interesting to see how he manages expectations at the Australian Open next year, where all the talk is sure to be around his quest for ultimate glory and a full set of major titles.
