Carlos Alcaraz told he is now doing something that is going to be a ‘problem’ for men’s tennis

He is coming off the back of the most improbable French Open title, where he came from the brink to beat Jannik Sinner in the final, and has returned from a week in Ibiza to casually win another Queen’s title.

At times, the 22-year-old makes tennis look so easy, and many will likely expect him to breeze through the bulk of the draw at Wimbledon again.

However, what makes his dominance so expectant is the recent change he’s made which has taken his game to another level.

What Carlos Alcaraz is doing that is a ‘problem’ for men’s tennis

Speaking about his serve, journalist Charlie Eccleshare began by stating: ‘It’s interesting because he clearly does take a huge amount of pride in it when he does serve well, because he’s not someone who serves really well. I think I’m sure he really doesn’t like the fact that he can do everything brilliantly, but he’s not a great server. So when he does serve well, you can see it means a lot to him.

‘And after the Munar match he actually, you know, he was asked, you show signs of frustration, are you disappointed? Maybe that you let yourself boil over or whatever? He was like, “No, that can happen. What I’m annoyed about is my serve, it wasn’t good enough. I need to be better,” basically. So clearly that’s a big preoccupation right now, especially, the fact that we’re playing on grass.

‘And I’m sure he does think about that Djokovic final apart, from that weird last game where he blew it. That was the best serving performance I’ve ever seen from him. And if he serves like that, then, I mean, where’s the chink? What do you attack? Because that’s the one thing that gives some players hope, I think.’

Catherine Whitaker, the host of The Tennis Podcast, concurred: ‘Right, that’s what I was thinking throughout those last couple of matches from Carlos Alcaraz, both in which he broke his own ace record for a best of three set matches, he did it in the semi-finals very comfortably in a two-set, 6-4, 6-4 win over Roberto Bautista Agut.

‘I think he hit 15, 15 in that match, was it? And eight in the first set, and then he hit 18, I think, in the end in the final. But of course, that was three sets. Both still records for best of three set matches.

‘Like, if you’re somebody else in the locker room, and you’ve already experienced the famous Carlos Alcaraz with the slightly dodgy serve. And now you’re looking at the famous Carlos Alcaraz, the serve bot. Like, how demoralising for everybody else?

‘I mean, if he can keep up this serving and this consistency, this is four titles in his last five tournaments, and he reached the final of the fifth one. We haven’t seen any real lax performances from him. I think this is a problem for the rest of men’s tennis for the next 10 years.’

One pundit suggested that Alcaraz had copied Rafael Nadal’s serve at Queen’s, or at least one trait which made it so successful.

Carlos Alcaraz has fixed his only weakness

If Carlos Alcaraz has fixed his only arguable weakness in his serve, what chance do his opponents really have? Especially on this, statistically his best surface.

Across his glittering yet short career, the youngster has lost just three matches on the grass, highlighting his continued dominance and remarkable consistency.

And, this was all whilst he had a serve that was seen as passable, but far from an outstanding threat.

It was the rest of his game that others could not deal with, but his service games were definitely seen as breakable by his opponents.

If his recent run at Queen’s is anything to go by, that window of opportunity has been slammed shut.

He took his narrow win over Jaume Munar and transformed his game, and faced just a single break point in the following two matches on his way to the title.

Should he maintain such form at Wimbledon, nobody will be able to stop him.