Watch out for the little ego trip": Benoît Maylin's scathing warning to Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz seemed untouchable, but his early exit in Paris raises questions. On Sans Filet, Benoît Maylin called him to order: "Be careful not to get a little big-headed."
Eliminated in his first match at the Rolex Paris Masters, Carlos Alcaraz suffered a massive setback in the middle of a fantastic 2025 season. For the first time since March, the world number one will not play in a tournament final.
A defeat that was analyzed by Benoît Maylin on the show Sans Filet:
"When you make nine finals in a row, when you've just given Norrie a thrashing at Wimbledon, you arrive at this tournament thinking: 'Alright, let's continue. I'm untouchable, I'm going to cruise through my matches'.
In terms of attitude, I didn't like what he did. I didn't like that body language where he gets angry, he tells himself he won't make it... Now, he has to prove that he can manage to win even when playing poorly.
Nadal, Federer, or Djokovic didn't always play sublime tennis, but they managed to win because they fought with the humility of a battle. Rafael Nadal would never have had such an attitude on the court. Be careful not to get a little big-headed.
Everyone says that Sinner and Alcaraz are untouchable, so as a player, you inevitably hear it. He's such a star that at some point, you also have to know how to come back down to earth. You have to go to the mine with Cameron Norrie, bring out the pickaxe, and try to win matches that way.
Those matches are tough. We know that Ferrero and he are doing tremendous work for him to be performing well at the end of the season, but it didn't work.
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