The tennis world will be keen to see how often Alcaraz plays this year, especially given the injuries he sustained in the early stages of last season.

Boris Becker is particularly interested in Alcaraz’s 2025 schedule, especially as his 2024 schedule included four exhibition events.

What did Boris Becker tell Carlos Alcaraz’s team about his schedule?

In 2024 Carlos Alcaraz competed in 16 standard tournaments last year, in addition to the Laver Cup and Davis Cup group and knockout stages.

He also competed in the Netflix Slam exhibition event against Rafael Nadal, the Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia and the December exhibition events in the United States against Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe.

Becker, who shot to fame when he won Wimbledon aged just 17 in 1985, is wary Alcaraz may perform at his best less frequently if the schedule is too heavy, especially at such a young age.

“He had a bad tournament schedule in 2024 because he played far too much. Carlos is a diva on the court in a positive sense, a true artist,” the German said on his Becker Petkovic podcast.

“But you can only let him out when it really counts. He has to be on fire when he goes on the court. You don’t want to see an average Alcaraz, you want to see someone who is at 100 percent.

“His team needs to focus less on the money and more on titles and the world rankings. Sure, he gets seven-figure appearance fees for show fights in the off-season, but coaches and managers simply have to protect him better.”

What has Carlos Alcaraz previously said about the tennis schedule?

During the 2024 season Alcaraz was one of the players most vocal about the congested tennis schedule.

There were instances of a very short turnaround between Wimbledon and the Olympic Games, in addition to the US Open, the Davis Cup group stages and the Laver Cup.

Ahead of Alcaraz’s strong campaign for Team Europe at his first Laver Cup, he said those in charge of the schedule are ‘killing the players.’

“It has been a tough season, I have played fewer tournaments than other players, but many matches,” he said at the time. “I have experienced new things like being injured and coming back to the circuit afterwards.

“The seasons become long physically and mentally, and these tournaments help me feel like myself on the court again. There are few commitments left until the end of the year, but I am very eager to gradually feel better.

“In a way, they are killing us. “Right now there are many players injured due to the calendar and other factors, but at some point, there will be players who will have to skip tournaments because they have to take care of their bodies, families, and other aspects of life besides tennis.”

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