{"id":437590,"date":"2023-06-09T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437590"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:59:08","slug":"merciless-djokovic-beats-alcaraz-and-books-place-in-french-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/merciless-djokovic-beats-alcaraz-and-books-place-in-french-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Merciless Djokovic beats Alcaraz and books place in French Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was triumphant in the long-awaited 1\/2 final match against Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sunday in Paris awaits for Novak Djokovic! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1cbhoDx9ex\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1cbhoDx9ex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1667206638405550081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the match was marred by an unpleasant injury, which Alcaraz sustained early in the third set, when he was looking at the peak of his powers.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.1 received treatment twice and eventually decided to continue, but he wasn&#8217;t the same player.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic took full advantage and mercilessly swept past the wounded Spaniard in the last two sets to claim a place in the final in search of his record-breaking 23rd Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First and foremost I have to say tough luck to Carlos,&#8221; Djokovic said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this level the last thing you want is cramps and physical problems. I feel for him, I feel sorry, I hope he can recover and come back pretty soon. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows how young he is, he&#8217;s got plenty of time ahead of him and he will win this tournament many times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final is on Sunday, June 11, where Djokovic will face either Alexander Zverev or last year&#8217;s runner-up Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was triumphant in the long-awaited 1\/2 final match against Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1. Sunday in Paris awaits for Novak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437591,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,19432,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17857,19433,17855],"acf":{"announce":"Alcaraz picking up an injury midway through the match","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\/437590"}],"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=437590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437590"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437590"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}