{"id":439537,"date":"2023-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/alcaraz-squares-up-rune-clash-at-the-1-4-finals-of-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T03:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:51:42","slug":"alcaraz-squares-up-rune-clash-at-the-1-4-finals-of-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-squares-up-rune-clash-at-the-1-4-finals-of-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz squares up Rune clash at the 1\/4-finals of Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz will play in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the first time in his career. Last year, then still a teenager, he was eliminated in the fourth round, but now he managed to overcome that phase beating Matteo Berretini &#8211; 3:6, 6:3, 6:3, 6: 3.<\/p>\n<p>His next opponent will be Holger Rune, who knocked out Grigor Dimitrov earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz doing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> things  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QKYoZFrDV6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QKYoZFrDV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1678493534108676104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Spaniard surprisingly lost the first set after losing his serve in the eighth game and thus trailed by 3:5, and then Berretini closed the part with his own serve.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he quickly switched the gears and broke his Italian opponent in the fourth game of the second part for 3:1, then leveled the sets after 6:3. That was repeated in the third set, but this time he broke in the third game and won again with 6:3.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth part was significantly more interesting and both tennis players won their serves until 4:3 in favor of Alcaraz. Then he made a break for 5:3 and had no problem closing the set and the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vamos Charly  <\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz books his spot in the Quarter-Finals with a 3-6 6-3 6-3 6-3 over 2021 finalist Berrettini! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o4dq1ouNKa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/o4dq1ouNKa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1678493825671495680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 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>World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz will play in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the first time in his career. Last year, then still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17120,17072],"news_category":[20292,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,19971,6273],"acf":{"announce":"World No. 1 eliminated Matteo Berrettini in four 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\/439537"}],"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=439537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439537"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439537"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}