{"id":454439,"date":"2023-08-12T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454439"},"modified":"2023-08-12T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:35:29","slug":"alcaraz-suffers-shocking-canadian-open-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-suffers-shocking-canadian-open-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz suffers shocking Canadian Open exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s suffered an unexpected defeat on Friday as the world number one fell to American Tommy Paul 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>For the third consecutive match in Toronto, the Spaniard started a game slow, falling behind early and double faulting to hand Paul the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz switched into a gear in the second, hitting a sensational tweener for a winner to level at 3-3 and breaking at love for a 4-3 lead the next game en route to leveling the contest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz hits a tweener down the line passing shot against Tommy Paul<\/p>\n<p>Every tournament he plays, he keeps pushing the boundaries of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>He raises the entertainment value in tennis 10 times over.<\/p>\n<p>One word: Superstar. \u2b50\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ge8B6IaVdI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ge8B6IaVdI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1690160680396369921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul, though, was clinical in the deciding third set. The American produced a stunning backhand at the charging Alcaraz that he could not put back in his opponent&#8217;s court for a break and pouncing on a poorly executed drop shot from Alcaraz on match point to top the world No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Paul will rise to a career-high ranking of at least 12 on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s suffered an unexpected defeat on Friday as the world number one fell to American Tommy Paul 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":454444,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19640,16732,17245],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19641,17857,20895],"acf":{"announce":"The World No.1 was defeated by American Tommy Paul","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\/454439"}],"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=454439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454439"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454439"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}