{"id":457705,"date":"2023-09-01T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457705"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:58:20","slug":"alcaraz-easily-through-to-round-3-after-straight-sets-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-easily-through-to-round-3-after-straight-sets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz easily through to round 3 after straight sets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz breeze past Lloyd Harris in straight sets 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (4) to proceed to the third round of the US Open on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The first seed was the dominant force from the get-go as he broke Harris&#8217; serve in the first set, before sweeping him in the second.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cruising into R3! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lXO11aJGJs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lXO11aJGJs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1697426054409797901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old did show signs of a fightback in the final set, bringing it down to the wire for a tie-break. But Alcaraz&#8217; class proved too much for the South African as the Spaniard finished off the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I played great, a great match,\u201d Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a really tough player. Good serve-and-volley, good net game,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be really tough. I will play my best. I will have to return very, very well if I want to win that match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next up on the road for the defending champion is world No.26 Dan Evans of Great Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz breeze past Lloyd Harris in straight sets 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (4) to proceed to the third round of the US Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":457706,"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 defending champion showed real class and deservedly won","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\/457705"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457707,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457705\/revisions\/457707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457705"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457705"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}