It’s that time of the season again. A grand indoor spectacle where the world’s best gather under the bright lights: no sunlight, no wind, no excuses. Yet, for Carlos Alcaraz, this transition from open skies to closed arenas remains a strange affair. Why does indoor tennis become an Achilles heel for the all-terrain wonder, though?

As the 2025 ATP Finals kicked off, the 22-year-old Spaniard didn’t shy away from admitting the discomfort he still felt. Carlos Alcaraz has lost 14 times on indoor hard courts. A 68.9% win rate. He has managed to win only one title on this surface, which came earlier this year at the Rotterdam Open. Last year, Alcaraz admitted that he is not too bad indoors, but there are plenty of players who are better than him on this surface. This year at the Paris Masters,

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