{"id":1843901,"date":"2026-03-24T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1843901"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:30:16","slug":"miami-open-sebastian-korda-reveals-key-advice-john-mcenroe-gave-him-before-carlos-alcaraz-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1843901","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: Sebastian Korda reveals &#8216;key&#8217; advice John McEnroe gave him before Carlos Alcaraz upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Miami Open: Sebastian Korda reveals \u2018key\u2019 advice John McEnroe gave him before Carlos Alcaraz upset<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a 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class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Sebastian Korda with John McEnroe inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Following his stunning win against Carlos Alcaraz at the 2026 Miami Open, Sebastian Korda has revealed the \u201ckey\u201d advice he received from tennis legend John McEnroe last month.<\/p>\n<p>Korda upset <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Alcaraz<\/a>, the world No 1 and a seven-time Grand Slam winner, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the third round of the Masters 1000 tournament in Miami on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was Korda\u2019s second victory over Alcaraz after he defeated the Spaniard at the 2022 Monte Carlo Masters \u2014 and his first-ever victory against a world No 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his post-match press conference, Korda shed light on a conversation he had with former world No 1 McEnroe during the Dallas Open in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually in Dallas, I was actually super fortunate. John McEnroe was playing an exhibition there,\u201d the 25-year-old American explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty fortunate that he took a couple minutes out of his day to just talk with me. That\u2019s one of the things we really talked about was trying to find my identity on the court. [We] just talked about how I am as a human being, things that I\u2019m going with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was great. Especially a player like him, incredible commentator as well, you just kind of see how he sees my game, what he thinks I could use to try and play better tennis.<\/p>\n<h2>Miami Open News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-eclipses-novak-djokovic-carlos-alcaraz-bored-iga-swiatek-wim-fissette-alex-eala-miami-open\"><strong>Alcaraz \u2018bored\u2019, Swiatek &amp; Fissette react to split, Sinner eclipses Djokovic, Eala needs \u2018dramatic\u2019 improvement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-bit-worn-out-former-world-no-2-reacts-spaniards-comment\"><strong>Carlos Alcaraz \u2018a bit worn out\u2019 as former world No 2 reacts to Spaniard\u2019s \u2018want to go home\u2019 comment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one of the things he said was, \u2018You\u2019ve got to go soul searching. You\u2019ve got to figure out who you are. You\u2019ve got to figure out why you play tennis, why you love tennis.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s been a massive key for me. Grateful that he took the time out of his day to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world No 36 also spoke about the importance of his decision to play the Challenger event in San Diego after his opening round exit at the 2026 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed certain things. That\u2019s the reason why I went to go play in San Diego, just to try to put myself in those stressful situations,\u201d Korda said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d been injured for so long, missed so many months, and got down a really dark hole. Those were important weeks for me to just figure myself out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I wasn\u2019t playing the tennis that I\u2019m playing today. Especially mentally, I didn\u2019t feel great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave me a little bit of a boost of confidence to throw myself back in those stressful situations, put myself in a match, live in those nasty moments during a match, just those stressful environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely helped me. If I didn\u2019t play San Diego, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be sitting here right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korda will play 151st-ranked qualifier Martin Landaluce, a 20-year-old Spaniard, in the last 16 in Miami on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-shares-message-social-media-after-shock-miami-open-exit\">Carlos Alcaraz shares 23-word message on social media after shock Miami Open exit<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Open: Sebastian Korda reveals \u2018key\u2019 advice John McEnroe gave him before Carlos Alcaraz upset Ewan West 24 Mar 2026 1:30 PM Sebastian Korda with John McEnroe inset Following his stunning win against Carlos Alcaraz at the 2026 Miami Open, Sebastian Korda has revealed the \u201ckey\u201d advice he received from tennis legend John McEnroe last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1843901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}