{"id":457446,"date":"2023-08-30T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457446"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:28:55","slug":"alcaraz-through-to-the-second-round-in-new-york-as-koepfer-retires","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-through-to-the-second-round-in-new-york-as-koepfer-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz through to the second round in New York as Koepfer retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the second round of the tournament on Tuesday after his opponent, German Dominik Koepfer, retired with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was leading 6-2, 3-2 when Koepfer retired, having rolled his ankle in the first game. Alcaraz will play Lloyd Harris of South Africa in the second round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz is into Round 2 after Dominik Koepfer retires following an ankle injury in the first set. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pijmD4EMNr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pijmD4EMNr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1696704907456151868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Koepfer stopped short along the baseline in the first game, twisting his left ankle and was looking unlikely that he will pup up a fight against the world No.1.<\/p>\n<p>He took a medical timeout to have his ankle taped and returned to the court with the score at deuce but was clearly not at full strength and Alcaraz easily converted a break point with a well-placed drop shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Get well soon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominikKoepfer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DominikKoepfer<\/a>! \ud83e\udd72\ud83e\udd1c\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\udd1b\ud83c\udffb No one likes to win like this, but felt great tonight returning to a court that is so special to me! \ud83d\uddfd\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Getty &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usopen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ctzNftC9g0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ctzNftC9g0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlos Alcaraz (@carlosalcaraz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz\/status\/1696725232646508881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Koepfer buried his head in his towel after Alcaraz forced him into a forehand error to convert on a break point chance in the seventh game and after losing the first set and 3-2 down in the second, the German decided to throw in the towel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the second round of the tournament on Tuesday after his opponent, German Dominik Koepfer, retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":457451,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[17857,1891],"acf":{"announce":"The German twisted his ankle early in 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\/457446"}],"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=457446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457449,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457446\/revisions\/457449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457446"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457446"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}