{"id":412366,"date":"2023-02-12T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412366"},"modified":"2023-02-12T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:12:31","slug":"alcaraz-opens-2023-season-as-top-seed-in-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-opens-2023-season-as-top-seed-in-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz opens 2023 season as top seed in Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz is finally set to make his 2023 season debut &#8211; on the red clay in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfa4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>I did see the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> final&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> level was very, very high&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was also difficult\/complicated for me to see how Djokovic took away from me the \ud83c\udfbe\ud83d\udd1d1\u20e3 but I knew that sooner or later this will happen.<\/p>\n<p>Now my main goal is to take it back! \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T0g76D7pHd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/T0g76D7pHd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TRAVEL&amp;Sports (@travel__Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travel__Sports\/status\/1624806207146819588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard missed the Australian swing due to a leg injury and an ab injury derailed the end of his 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be my first tournament since I picked up the injury in Paris,\u201d the 19-year-old US Open champion said. \u201cIt\u2019s been four months since then.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I always arrive thinking about winning and wanting to win, even though it won\u2019t be easy after such a long time without competing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I can improve everything in terms of my game, fitness and mentality. Little by little, my team will take those small steps to get even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafa, Roger and Djokovic, when they were young, they were so good, but as time has gone by, they\u2019ve improved,\u201d he added. This is the basis of his motivation from now on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certain that I need to continue to improve,\u201d the title favorite added. \u201cAchieving my dream very quickly caught me by surprise, so to speak. Now I\u2019m used to it, I have a goal, I know where I want to get to, what I want to be, and that is the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seeds look like: 1 Carlos Alcaraz, 2 Cameron Norrie, 3 Lorenzo Musetti, 4 Diego Schwartzman, 5 Francisco Cerundolo, 6 Sebastian Baez, 7 Alex Molcan and 8 Albert Ramos Vinolas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz is finally set to make his 2023 season debut &#8211; on the red clay in Buenos Aires. \ud83c\udfa4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17461,16732,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\"I need to continue to improve,\" the US Open champion says","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412366"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412366"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}