{"id":416022,"date":"2023-02-20T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T05:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416022"},"modified":"2023-02-20T02:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:18:28","slug":"alcaraz-wins-buenos-aires-witle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-wins-buenos-aires-witle\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz wins Buenos Aires title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Carlos Alcaraz ended his first event of the year with a seventh ATP Tour title &#8211; the 19-year-old picking up a 7-5, 6-3 win over Brtain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie in the Argentina Open final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc51 King of Buenos Aires \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz makes a successful return to claim his first title of 2023, defeating Cam Norrie 6-3 7-5.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArgentinaOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ArgentinaOpen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArgOpen2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ArgOpen2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/79HPzWfD48\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/79HPzWfD48<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1627408474198999047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He became the first Spaniard to win the Buenos Aires trophy since his compatriot Rafael Nadal in 2015 and tied Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten as the highest-ranked winner in tournament history at No. 2 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>It was Alcaraz&#8217;s first title since his milestone US Open triumph as he was forced to miss the Australian Open due to right leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt very comfortable playing the final,&#8221; Alcaraz, who lost just one set in his four victories at the Buenos Aires ATP 250 &#8211; in his first match back against Serbia&#8217;s Laslo Djere, said. &#8220;I knew that it was going to be really difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started really focused on what I had to do at the beginning, my game, my level.\u00a0 This is the level that I have to play in finals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Norrie lost his second final of the year, after being bested by Richard Gasquet in Auckland in January.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 2 Alcaraz next defends his title at the Rio Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Carlos Alcaraz ended his first event of the year with a seventh ATP Tour title &#8211; the 19-year-old picking up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17461,16732,17409],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard defeated Britain's Norrie in two sets in the final","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\/416022"}],"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=416022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416022"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416022"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}