{"id":455515,"date":"2023-08-19T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455515"},"modified":"2023-08-19T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:48:16","slug":"alcaraz-eliminates-purcell-and-advances-to-1-2-finals-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-eliminates-purcell-and-advances-to-1-2-finals-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz eliminates Purcell and advances to 1\/2 finals in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 1, won against world number 70, Max Purcell, 2-1 sets and will play in the semifinal at the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlitos finds the way \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>The moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> moved past Max Purcell to reach his first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CincyTennis<\/a> semi-final! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XxNEi0XOPh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XxNEi0XOPh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1692649310628827469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Purcell, who was a heavy underdog, shocked the fans and triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-4 after converting 1 break from 1 chance. The Spaniard also had 1 chance to break his opponent\u2019s serve in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set but missed it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Carlos won 6-3 after this time, converting the only chance that he had to break Max\u2019s serve, as the Australian had no chance to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz released 2 breaks from 7 opportunities in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set and won it 6-4, as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> break was when Purcell served to tie the game 5-5.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1 &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz is the first men&#8217;s player to appear in the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Open before the age of 21 since Andy Roddick did so in 2003. Unstoppable. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CincyTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CincyTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPMediaInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ATPMediaInfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MluI0Wfs73\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MluI0Wfs73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1692649181461041262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the \u00bd finals, Carlos will play against world number 20, Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexei Popyrin in his previous 2 matches in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz signs the camera after beating Max Purcell:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go Cincinnati\u201d \ud83e\udd70 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hw3apnWHmJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hw3apnWHmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1692649851975020931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 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 1, won against world number 70, Max Purcell, 2-1 sets and will play in the semifinal at the Masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,20993,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard got the victory after 3 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\/455515"}],"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=455515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455515"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455515"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}