{"id":469307,"date":"2023-11-13T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469307"},"modified":"2023-11-13T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:02:37","slug":"zverev-beats-alcaraz-in-the-spaniards-atp-finals-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zverev-beats-alcaraz-in-the-spaniards-atp-finals-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev beats Alcaraz in the Spaniard\u2019s ATP Finals debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev, world number 8, won against world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, 2-1 sets after almost 2 hours and 35 minutes in a clash from Group B at the ATP Final in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The 2-time Champ is up and running \ud83c\udfc3\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexZverev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AlexZverev<\/a> defeats Alcaraz to kick off his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NittoATPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NittoATPFinals<\/a> campaign! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ds6sTahyoB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ds6sTahyoB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1724102007084986386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> set was the most entertaining one as both players converted 1 break each, and the set was decided after a tiebreak. Alcaraz won it 7-3 points and got the lead.<\/p>\n<p>However, after that, Zverev was the better player, and he triumphed in the 2nd set as he needed only 1 break, which was enough for him to end it 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened in the deciding set, as a single break for the German tennis player secured him the victory in the 3rd set and the match.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B are also Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, who will play later today their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alexander Zverev beats Carlos Alcaraz 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4 in Turin<\/p>\n<p>Sascha now leads the head to head against Carlos 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u270523rd top 5 win of his career<br \/>\n\u27052nd top 5 win of 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3KxvCfkQ5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W3KxvCfkQ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1724101458147381683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 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>Alexander Zverev, world number 8, won against world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, 2-1 sets after almost 2 hours and 35 minutes in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,16732,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17870,17857,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The German triumphed after trailing by 1 set.","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\/469307"}],"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=469307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469309,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469307\/revisions\/469309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469307"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469307"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}