Carlos Alcaraz stunned by Botic Van De Zandschulp at US Open

after Double fating to fall behind to sets To None a deficit he has never overcome in the second round of the US Open on Thursday night Carlos alcara slung his equipment bag over a shoulder and trudged toward the locker room glancing in the direction of his coach 2003 French Open Champion Juan Carlos Ferrera alaras pointed his right index finger at his Temple then wagged that finger as if to say I'm not thinking straight he might have been excused for being confused by what was transpiring under the closed tractable roof at Arthur Ash Stadium on a Chile evening and one set later alcaraz's 15 match Grand Slam unbeaten streak was over with a sloppy 6 to1 7 to5 6 to4 loss to 74th ranked bodic band Zano it was a fight against myself in my mind during the match alaro said in tennis you are playing against someone that wants the same as you to win the match and you have to be as calm as you can just to think better in the match and try to do good things today I was playing against the opponent and I was playing against myself in my mind a lot of emotions that I couldn't control the result eliminated the pre-tournament men's favorite and certainly was hard to predict beforehand given the no three- seated alaras is standing in the game his Excellence of late and his opponent's far lesser resume it followed another exit in Ash for a past US Open Champion Naomi Osaka who was sent home Thursday by Carolina much over 6 to3 7 7 to 65 that one though was not nearly as out of nowhere as what happened to alcaras he won the French Open in June and Wimbledon in July to raise his career total to for major championships including taking the title at Flushing Meadows in 2022 then in early August all caras won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics losing to Novak jokovic in the final maybe Al cars acknowledged a tennis schedule he called so tight dra him too much probably I came here with not as much energy as I thought that I was going to have he said but I mean I don't want to put that as excuse