Carlos Alcaraz tears into Paris Masters after surprising loss in third round

We get it, Carlos Alcaraz. You don't like fast courts. The Spaniard complained about the playing surface at the Paris Masters after his first-round win this week, but after a surprising third-round loss to Ugo Humbert, Alcaraz truly let his feelings about the courts known. He simply doesn't understand why they need to play so fast.

Sure, he did give Humbert a bit of credit for the victory. The Frenchmen deserved the three-set win with a break of the Spaniard in the third set. Alcaraz could have just let the loss go at that, but he went a step further. In fact, many steps.

The issue with the Spaniard's complaint is that every player in the tournament has to play on the same type of surface. This means the field is equal. Maybe one player is better on fast surfaces than another, but an event also shouldn't cater to a top-ranked player simply so that the player has a better chance of winning. Alcaraz also clearly let his opponents know that in future matches, he would be very uncomfortable on fast courts. He might have kept that to himself.

Carlos Alcaraz has a poor excuse for his Paris Masters loss to Ugo Humbert

Alcaraz told the media after his 1-6 6-3 5-7 loss to Humbert, "This court...I mean, I don’t want to say something that there is going to sound like an excuse. First of all, Ugo deserves to win, that’s obvious, but it depends. Because I play, for example, the Davis Cup indoor court and the court was way slower than this one...When I played the first match, the stats came out that it is the fastest court in the Masters 1000, probably on the tour right now...Probably and the fastest one, you know, in the last ten years in this tournament."

Again, Alcaraz could have stopped there and let Humbert take his victory. But the Spaniard didn't. He doubled-down.

Alcaraz continued by saying, "So I don’t know why they do it. I don’t know why they have changed a court from other tournaments and obviously in the same tournament, comparing to other years. It surprised me a little bit, so I came here with not too many days. Probably I had to come earlier to get used to these conditions but I didn’t. But, honestly, all I can say is I don’t understand why they did it."

Again, every player had to play on the same kind of court conditions. If those players showed up earlier to adjust, then that just means they were better prepared for the tournament than the Spaniard was. Plus, great players should be able to take care of business on any surface, so complaining about the courts after a loss simply seems hollow and weak.

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