{"id":412697,"date":"2023-02-16T01:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412697"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:18:04","slug":"alcaraz-makes-winning-season-debut-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-makes-winning-season-debut-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz makes winning season debut in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz made a winning return to competition on Wednesday night, earning a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 victory against Serbia&#8217;s Laslo Djere at the Argentina Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Primer paso de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a>  en Argentina\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>El espa\u00f1ol volvi\u00f3 a las canchas con victoria en Buenos Aires\ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9iSPMv9lGN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9iSPMv9lGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Argentina Open (@ArgentinaOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArgentinaOpen\/status\/1626058553617268736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Playing his first ATP Tour match in more than three months, the Spaniard lived up to lofty expectations with a powerful performance at the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires to finish the game in two hours and one minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great feeling to win again,&#8221; 19-year-old Alcaraz said post-match. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time for me with no competition, with no matches, just recovering. Finally I got my first win of 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy [in Buenos Aires] &#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect such a great crowd, a great atmosphere behind me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I just can say thank you to all the fans here in Buenos Aires for the warm welcome that I received in this first match and I hope to keep going with this energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz lost the top spot in the ATP Rankings to Serbian ace Novak Djokovic after being sidelined with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz made a winning return to competition on Wednesday night, earning a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 victory against Serbia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412698,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard beat Serbian Djere in two hours","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\/412697"}],"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=412697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412697"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412697"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}