{"id":434519,"date":"2023-04-28T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434519"},"modified":"2023-04-28T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:45:00","slug":"alcaraz-survives-early-scare-to-win-madrid-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-survives-early-scare-to-win-madrid-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz survives early scare to win Madrid opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz came out victorious in his first round of the Madrid Open match against 41st-ranked Emil Ruusuvuori 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAR-LI-TOS \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Defending champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> comes through an epic to begin his 2023 campaign!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4e1UPnTD1p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4e1UPnTD1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1651985982168739849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe defending champion was on the ropes after losing the first set in a convincing fashion and his Finnish opponent seemed to be on course to take a decisive lead in the second, before the Spaniard saved 5 break points in the 6th game to draw the score level at 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after he accomplished his first break in the match and established a commanding lead in the set, clinching it soon afterwards. It was smooth sailing in the third set for Alcaraz as he emerged victorious in the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just happy I could get this very difficult win. . . .\u201d he said in the post match interview<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe people think that I should win easily or not get into trouble in matches, but each match is its own world. It was a very hard match. You just have to stay humble and accept the bad moments as they come and try to turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz successfully defended his title in Barcelona last weekend and with Djokovic out of the picture in Madrid, he has his sights firmly on the No.1 spot in the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz came out victorious in his first round of the Madrid Open match against 41st-ranked Emil Ruusuvuori 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":434520,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,18975,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The world No.2 had to come from behind to clinch victory","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\/434519"}],"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=434519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434519"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434519"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}