{"id":435615,"date":"2023-05-15T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435615"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:28:01","slug":"marozsan-shocks-alcaraz-in-straight-sets-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/marozsan-shocks-alcaraz-in-straight-sets-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Marozsan shocks Alcaraz in straight sets in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabian Marozsan, world number 135, upset Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, and from the next week \u2013 world number 1 and beat him in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (4) in a game from the 1\/16 finals at the Italian capital Masters 1000 tournament on clay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First-ever ATP main draw.<br \/>\nFirst-ever Masters 1000 event.<br \/>\nDefeats World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the big time, Fabian Marozsan!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FTSoB0SwkG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FTSoB0SwkG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1658098310748545029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Marozsan converted his only available break point in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set to win 6-3, as Alcaraz had one chance to break his opponent&#8217;s serve but didn&#8217;t convert it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1 &#8211; Fabian Marozsan is the first player ranked 101+ at the Italian Open to win their maiden match against a top-two ranked opponent in the Open Era. Upset.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@InteBNLdItalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPMediaInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ATPMediaInfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R8M85AuL15\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R8M85AuL15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1658099867972149249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, both tennis players converted 1 break, as strangely or not, Carlos was closer to losing as he saved 5 break points. Finally, in the tiebreak, Alcaraz led 4-1 but then lost 6 straight points, and Fabian won the biggest match of his career so far to advance to the 1\/8 finals; he will face world number 16 Borna Coric.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPSET OF THE YEAR?<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Marozsan knocks Carlos Alcaraz out of Rome! \ud83d\ude33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nH9v6kw3oY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nH9v6kw3oY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1658099352580272128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabian Marozsan, world number 135, upset Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, and from the next week \u2013 world number 1 and beat him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,19224],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,19370,19225],"acf":{"announce":"The Hungarian eliminated the Spaniard 2:0 sets.","video":["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\/435615"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435615"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435615"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}