{"id":464254,"date":"2023-10-03T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464254"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:20:10","slug":"sinner-shocks-alcaraz-and-will-play-for-the-title-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sinner-shocks-alcaraz-and-will-play-for-the-title-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner shocks Alcaraz and will play for the title in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannick Sinner, world number 7, won 2-0 sets against world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, and will have the chance to lift the trophy at Beijing tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 6 games of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, we saw 4 breaks \u2013 2 from each of the players. However, until the end, neither could break his opponent&#8217;s serve, and the set was decided after a tiebreak. The Italian triumphed 7-4 points and closed the first set after 1 hour and 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">YES HE JAN \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janniksin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@janniksin<\/a> STUNS top seed Carlos Alcaraz in Beijing!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChinaOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ChinaOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4SFWxFQs0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W4SFWxFQs0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1709220719848980593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, however, Sinner dominated and broke Alcaraz&#8217;s serve 3 times while saving 5 from 5 chances of his Spaniard opponent breaking him. The result was 6-1 for Jannick in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set for the straight-set victory despite being an underdog vs. Carlitos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jannik Sinner after beating Carlos Alcaraz in Beijing:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very very proud. First set was very tough.. I just tried to stay focused. I\u2019m obviously very happy about the result. Tomorrow I have obviously a very tough match against an opponent I never want. Hopefully it\u2019s gonna be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aq4X67ZrIW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Aq4X67ZrIW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1709222662281765064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sinner will play for the title in Beijing against Daniil Medvedev, who eliminated Alexander Zverev earlier today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It All Comes Down To This! \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janniksin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@janniksin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniilMedwed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DaniilMedwed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChinaOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ChinaOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u4XLbKSxrR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/u4XLbKSxrR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1709221639316263306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 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>Jannick Sinner, world number 7, won 2-0 sets against world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, and will have the chance to lift the trophy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464255,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,21620,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[17857,21621,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Jannick defeated Carlos in straight sets in the \u00bd finals at the ATP 500 tournament.","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\/464254"}],"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=464254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464257,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464254\/revisions\/464257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464254"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464254"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}