Having already hosted clinics with him at One&Only Palmilla and the Canary Islands’ Abama Resort Tenerife, LUX Tennis met the second, inviting him and a bunch of about 10 pals to get pleasure from COMO Parrot Cay, far-off from peering crowds, the place he spent his days swimming, boating, fishing, and enjoying seaside volleyball.
“We travel so much, the hotel really becomes a temporary home,” Alcaraz says. For him, it’s about having an excellent gymnasium, dependable room service, snug mattress, and blackout curtain “because good sleep makes all the difference.” He additionally enjoys when there are different sports activities facilities, like a basketball court docket, because it’s “always a nice bonus to unwind and disconnect.”
Outside of periods with him and different scheduled occasions, my fellow vacationers and I selected to respect one another’s privateness and simply benefit from the resort. Some reported seeing Alcaraz go for (very fast-paced) morning runs, whereas others noticed him on the gymnasium. But as proof of simply how snug Alcaraz was in his environment, on most nights I was there, he selected to dine on the eating places alongside different friends, as a substitute of choosing personal eating in the villa. The surroundings fosters such a way of normalcy that I didn’t even discover he was on the subsequent desk on the resort’s Italian restaurant Terrace till he stood as much as depart and waved.
While LUX Tennis has carved out its area of interest, it is hardly the one program that hosts starry getaways. Just days earlier than Alcaraz’s go to, Novak Djokovic was additionally in Turks and Caicos at Amanyara, as a part of a wellness retreat organized by means of his partnership with Aman. The week after, John McEnroe hosted the Baha Mar Cup in the Bahamas, attended by celebrities reminiscent of James Blake, Jessica Pegula, Tommy Paul, and Victoria Azarenka, which additionally included VIP clinics to play with the celebrities.