Handling stress and pressure is nothing new for a tennis pro. But put them in a timed scavenger hunt? Even their patience runs out. The ATP Tour recently challenged Carlos Alcaraz, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Alexander Bublik to a simple game: find a hidden tennis ball in a room within three minutes. The catch was that the producers rigged the room with fake clues, and ultimately all three found the ball, although one of them with extra help.
Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Bublik, and Stefanos Tsitsipas Play Scavenger Hunt in Sneaky ATP Prank
In a hilarious new video released by the ATP Tour, Alcaraz, Tsitsipas, and Bublik were put to a test in a prank “Find the Ball” challenge room.
Alcaraz started with his usual high energy, immediately started searching the room, and found a locked box. After a minute of hunting down a key, he opened the box, only to realize the producers had planted a fake tennis ball inside.
“Wow,” he sighed, realizing it was a trick. “Guys, there is an ATP Tour ball here, or you’re messing with me around?”
The world No. 2 finally looked under the table and found the real one, laughing at how long it took him. “Wait, wait, wait. Come on. F***, guys. You made it.” “You like to mess with the players, huh?” Alcaraz joked.
Who knew a tennis ball could cause so much chaos 🎾😂
Watch @carlosalcaraz, Bublik & @stefanos take on the “Find the Ball” challenge in our latest #MastersTask. pic.twitter.com/BkK6I3bcIp
— ATP Tour (@atptour) May 7, 2026
Tsitsipas did not enjoy the clock ticking down. He tried to find the right keys, muttering to himself: “The key is definitely in here… There we go. Ah, it’s not the right one, okay.”
As time ran out, he complained that the prank was messing with his pre-tournament focus.
“Putting myself into a stressful situation because I have a tournament ahead of me and I’d rather channel it into the tournament [than] into a game that’s completely useless,” Tsitsipas vented. “I feel like this is an escape room or something. You guys are… What the heck?”
Finally, a producer had to give him a hint to look under the table. “Oh, f**k. Good one,” Tsitsipas laughed when he saw it. “You guys are cheeky.”
Meanwhile, Bublik walked into the room expecting a trick, which actually helped him win. “Wrong, wrong. I have a feeling that I need to find the key first,” the Kazakh said. But he refused to fall for the obvious traps around the room. “I’m not gonna go there immediately because you may trick me.”
He checked his surroundings instead of running around, finding the ball faster.
“Hang on, it might be right in front of me,” he realized, looking under the desk. “Here it is! (laughs).”
Even though he had already won the game, Bublik spent the rest of his time just popping the decorative balloons in the room just to cause some chaos. “I had fun doing it,” he joked. “I knew there is nothing.”
While walking out of the room, he quipped, “I’m pissed at you guys.”
Jokes and pranks aside, Alcaraz is recovering from a right wrist injury, which forced him to withdraw from the Barcelona Open and skip Madrid, Rome, and Roland Garros, where he is the current champion. Bublik and Tsitsipas are in Rome looking to bounce back from recent setbacks on clay. The Greek is looking to shake off a RO16 defeat to Casper Ruud in Madrid, and will play his first match today against Tomáš Macháč, while Bublik will face Sebastian Baez on Friday.
