Following ‘lifetime experience’ of lifting World Cup with Spain, Alcaraz battles ‘intrusive thoughts’ on return to

I have similar feelings with it. I do remember when I just got injured in the forearm, but I just I played before Roland Garros, I played Madrid. But, you know, I just come in here with a kind of similar feeling. So I need competition. You know, I need to come here to practice with these guys to feel the competition once again. And this is a real testing. But I'm just I'm feeling great. And just I think that injury helped me a lot to know right now that it's all on my head. You know, I just I got to trust my team. I got to trust my people that tell me that it's going to be it's going to be fine. So I just have to go 100 percent. And then right now, I think with the practice that I've made so far, it's been all good. So just trying to to like stay away, stay away from from that fear. And I'm playing I'm playing normally. That thoughts are really really difficult to to to deal with, because I don't know if I'm going to be ready for Cincinnati, for US Open, or I'm going to miss, you know, the whole American Swing. So that that thoughts were really difficult to to to deal with. But finally, here we are. My goal was was try to to be healthy as soon as soon as possible. I'm trying not to miss, you know, more competitions. So I would say that intrusive thoughts were the most difficult things to deal with within this in this process. First of all, what for me was a lifetime experience, you know, seeing Spain winning the World Cup. And yeah, when I came here, I just I, you know, I thought about I thought about it and I still think about it sometimes. So it's great. And then I mean, Louis Vuitton had the trunks that you know, that was carrying the trophy. So they told me that I I'm down to to do it. And I was like, I mean, there's a lifetime experience for me, you know, like holding the trophy in the ceremony to give it to them, you know, on the field. So it was a it was a great experience. So going back a little bit about, you know, the things that I missed, the tournaments that I missed and everything, I just tried to, you know, make the most of the opportunities that, you know, life brought to me. And this is one of those things that I enjoyed. I enjoyed so much. So it was a really cool experience, really cool moment. And I'm going to I'm going to give it from a. Kind of weird, we are going to we are not going to see each other for like six months now, seven months, so it's a kind of kind of weird situation, to be honest, but you know, I just wish him all the all the best. Hopefully as soon and really great recovery and seeing him back, you know, on court as his his best once once again.