{"id":465462,"date":"2023-10-11T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465462"},"modified":"2023-10-11T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:57:42","slug":"dimitrov-shocks-alcaraz-at-shanghai-r16-with-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dimitrov-shocks-alcaraz-at-shanghai-r16-with-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitrov shocks Alcaraz at Shanghai R16 with a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grigor Dimitrov showed a great tennis to eliminate the world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in Shanghai Masters R16 clash. The Bulgarian was set down, but managed to collect his game and won 5:7; 6:2; 6:4.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov started the game pretty strong and got a huge advantage of 3-5, but went into a big crisis, giving Alcaraz the chance to make a turnaround and to win 4 games in a row to clinch the first set 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian put his head down again in the second part and showed great form again, this time building a solid lead and winning the set 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>This sent the clash into a decisive third set where both player won their first service games, but Alcaraz was broken in the third game and afterwards Dimitrov got his 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GRIGO-RENAISSANCE \ud83d\udd19<\/p>\n<p>Grigor Dimitrov defeats Carlos Alcaraz for the FIRST TIME 5-7 6-2 6-4 for his biggest win since Indian Wells 2021! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexShanghaiMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolexShanghaiMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAXHYf3Ozp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eAXHYf3Ozp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1712089286047158644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAlcaraz continued to play shaky and was winning his service games difficult. That led to 5-4 for Dimitrov and his serve. The Bulgarian was cool in the tense moments and closed the match 6:4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grigor Dimitrov showed a great tennis to eliminate the world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in Shanghai Masters R16 clash. The Bulgarian was set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465465,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17570,21634],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17857,21636,611],"acf":{"announce":"The Bulgarian played one of his best games of the year to eliminate the world No. 2","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\/465462"}],"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=465462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465467,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465462\/revisions\/465467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465462"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465462"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}