{"id":438430,"date":"2023-06-23T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438430"},"modified":"2023-06-23T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:29:24","slug":"alcaraz-eliminates-dimitrov-in-straight-sets-at-queens-club","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-eliminates-dimitrov-in-straight-sets-at-queens-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz eliminates Dimitrov in straight sets at Queen&#8217;s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, won against world number 26, Grigor Dimitrov, by 2:0 sets and reached the \u00bd finals at Queen&#8217;s Club in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AlcaGrass in full swing \ud83c\udf31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cinchChampionships?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#cinchChampionships<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PsUZuTmQ51\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PsUZuTmQ51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1672323414693126144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after 1 break was enough for that as the Bulgarian had 3 chances to break Alcaraz&#8217;s serve, but the world number 2 saved them all.<\/p>\n<p>Grigor started the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set very well and had a 3-0 game lead with 1 break, but after that, Dimitrov lost 4 straight games. However, the player from Bulgaria breaks his opponent from Spain serve again to tie the game 4-4. After that, Alcaraz showed why he is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> best player in the world and won again 2 games in a row, including 1 break to win the set and the match.<\/p>\n<p>That was Carlos&#8217;s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> straight victory against Grigor, as they had played 3 matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WHAT A POINT \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> &amp; Dimitrov getting the absolute BEST out of each other \ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cinchChampionships?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#cinchChampionships<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gkfdW2DCao\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gkfdW2DCao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1672308182956507137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard will face Sebastian Korda in the \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">8 &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz is the player with the most semi-finals reached in 2023 (eight). Domination<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cinchChampionships?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#cinchChampionships<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QueensTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@QueensTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCSport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_LTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@the_LTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/isY7tRTTIK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/isY7tRTTIK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1672323753827618816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 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>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, won against world number 26, Grigor Dimitrov, by 2:0 sets and reached the \u00bd finals at Queen&#8217;s Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17570,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,18071,611],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos won the match for a little more than an hour and a half.","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\/438430"}],"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=438430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438430"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438430"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}