{"id":467883,"date":"2023-10-31T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467883"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:55:16","slug":"safiullin-shocks-alcaraz-and-eliminates-him-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/safiullin-shocks-alcaraz-and-eliminates-him-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Safiullin shocks Alcaraz and eliminates him in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Safiullin, world number 45, shocked world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, and beat him in straight sets to eliminate him from the Masters 1000 in Paris in the Spaniard\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian converted 2 breaks from 2 opportunities in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, which was enough for the victory as his opponent from Spain converted only 1 break point as he didn\u2019t have any more chances.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, too. This time, Safiullin had 6 opportunities to break Alcaraz\u2019s serve, and he converted 2 of them. Carlos had 3 chances to break Roman\u2019s serve as he did it but only once, which meant that he would be defeated with 1 break difference in the second set, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roman Safiullin beats Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest win of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Unreal performance that won\u2019t be forgotten any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Well done. \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qgf023RA49\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qgf023RA49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1719468118207246438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> ever match between these 2 tennis players. In the next round in Paris, Safiullin will face his compatriot Karen Khachanov, who eliminated Laslo Djere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who&#8217;s going to be a dark horse this season?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniilMedwed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DaniilMedwed<\/a>: Roman Safiullin \ud83d\udd2e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RolexPMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RolexPMasters<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexParisMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolexParisMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLa0yzo5Yi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eLa0yzo5Yi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1719468546105749913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 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>Roman Safiullin, world number 45, shocked world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, and beat him in straight sets to eliminate him from the Masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467884,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,21952,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Roman defeated Carlos 2-0 sets and sent the Spaniard home.","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\/467883"}],"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=467883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467887,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467883\/revisions\/467887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467883"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467883"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}