{"id":437425,"date":"2023-06-07T01:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437425"},"modified":"2023-06-06T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T03:49:48","slug":"tsitsipas-blames-sleeping-pills-and-naps-for-his-alcaraz-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tsitsipas-blames-sleeping-pills-and-naps-for-his-alcaraz-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas blames sleeping pills and naps for his Alcaraz defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas found an excuse in his sleeping pills for his three-set defeat by top seed Carlos Alcaraz in their French Open quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that his pre-match naps, and late matches are the main reason for the loss, not the Spaniard&#8217;s sensational quality.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz pulverised the fifth seed to take a 6-2 6-1 5-1 lead with a jaw-dropping display before a brief comeback by Tsitsipas forced a third set tiebreak which the Spaniard won as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that I&#8217;m going to try to avoid in the future is have melatonin pills and naps before matches because it clearly doesn&#8217;t seem to be working. I don&#8217;t think he played any crazy tennis. I allowed it to happen. I don&#8217;t think he played his best match. He played great. I mean, I don&#8217;t think he played exceptional, but he played great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI root for the young kids&#8221; \ud83d\udcad<\/p>\n<p>Disappointed Tsitsipas applauds Alcaraz.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1666213124180185088?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>&#8220;He played tennis with few errors and that was enough to beat me. I had some late-night sessions. Not super late, but late enough for me to kind of have my sleep schedule ruined, in a way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas found an excuse in his sleeping pills for his three-set defeat by top seed Carlos Alcaraz in their French Open quarter-final. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437426,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19055,17249],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[6274,18070],"acf":{"announce":"The Greek player thinks his opponent didn't play amazing tennis","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\/437425"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437425"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437425"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}