{"id":437417,"date":"2023-06-06T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437417"},"modified":"2023-06-06T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T03:43:35","slug":"alcaraz-overcomes-tsitsipas-to-set-up-crunch-1-2-final-with-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-overcomes-tsitsipas-to-set-up-crunch-1-2-final-with-djokovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz overcomes Tsitsipas to set up crunch 1\/2 final with Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) on Tuesday night to set up a mouth-watering 1\/2 final with Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard established his dominance early on and blitzed his opponent in the first two sets. However, Tsitsipas showed a fair bit of resistance in the 3rd with the 5th-seeded Greek saving 5 match points in total, denying Alcaraz to clinch the match at 5-3 on his own serve.<\/p>\n<p>That forced the set into a tie-break, where Tsitsipas kept Alcaraz honest as the Spaniard had to rely on a small break to maintain his lead. However, a cool nerves under pressure saw the world No.1 prevail and get past stubborn Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SIMPLY. TOO. GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Djokovic \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2LLuT0ijLR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2LLuT0ijLR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1666183972945113100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz reaches Roland Garros last 4 for the first time in his career. There he will encounter Djokovic, who earlier today overcome a difficult challenge from Khachanov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) on Tuesday night to set up a mouth-watering 1\/2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437418,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,19432,17249],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[17857,19433,18070],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard breeze past his Greek opponent despite struggles in the final set","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\/437417"}],"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=437417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437417"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437417"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}