{"id":427663,"date":"2023-02-26T23:41:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T04:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427663"},"modified":"2023-02-26T23:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T04:41:55","slug":"norrie-claims-fifth-atp-title-with-thrilling-victory-over-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/norrie-claims-fifth-atp-title-with-thrilling-victory-over-alcaraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Norrie claims fifth ATP title with thrilling victory over Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">British number one Cameron Norrie fought back from a set down to beat top seed Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in a thrilling Rio Open final to claim his fifth ATP singles title on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAMERON MARAVILHOSO \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>The moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cam_norrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cam_norrie<\/a> defeated Alcaraz 5-7 6-4 7-5 to clinch the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RioOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RioOpen<\/a> title! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6jMBZmDwK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m6jMBZmDwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1629987122580160512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The win in Brazil comes just seven days after the 27-year-old Norrie, ranked 13th in the world, lost to world number two Alcaraz <span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.3\">in the Argentina Open final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">It is Norrie&#8221;s first title of 2023 and just his second on clay, having won the Lyon Open in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so special to win this one especially after losing a couple of finals already this year,&#8221; Norrie said post-match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;I had to do it the tough way, I was a set and a break down and 0-30 on my serve. <\/span><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">I managed to flick a switch and turn it around, so it was a good day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-16\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-16.0\">&#8220;I had to battle a lot of demons in the last couple of weeks but managed to play well in the big moments and that&#8217;s what it took today.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-17\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-17.0\">Alcaraz, who was the defending champion in Rio having beat Diego Schwartzman in last year&#8217;s final, missed out on an eighth career title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-18\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjwzxymgg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-18.0\">It was the Spaniard&#8217;s second tournament of the year following a four-month injury lay-off which saw him miss the Australian Open.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Cameron Norrie fought back from a set down to beat top seed Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in a thrilling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427664,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17461,16732,17398],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Brit won his second title on clay, having won the Lyon Open in 2022","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\/427663"}],"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=427663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427663"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427663"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}