{"id":480281,"date":"2024-03-14T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480281"},"modified":"2024-03-14T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:30:07","slug":"alcaraz-beats-zverev-in-straight-sets-in-bee-delayed-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-beats-zverev-in-straight-sets-in-bee-delayed-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz beats Zverev in straight sets in \u2018bee delayed match\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, defeated world number 6, Alexander Zverev, and advanced to the semifinals at Indian Wells in a match that will be remember for being suspended for bee invasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">11 &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s quarter-final win over Alexander Zverev is his 11th ATP top 10 win at Masters 1000 events. Only two U21 players since 1990 have 10+ such wins:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Rafael Nadal (17)<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Carlos Alcaraz (11)<\/p>\n<p>Bulls.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TennisParadise?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TennisParadise<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNPPARIBASOPEN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BNPPARIBASOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2go4KKL29W\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2go4KKL29W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1768446785780170817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After only 2 games, the clash was suspended after bees attack the players and the fans on the court and the 2 tennis players had to wait over an hour until the game was resumed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our hero has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>This man is taking on the bees in the Alcaraz Zverev delay without fear.<\/p>\n<p>No bee keeping suit.<\/p>\n<p>Not even gloves.<\/p>\n<p>We salute you. \ud83e\udee1\ud83d\udc1d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hl0DKqTZAf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hl0DKqTZAf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1768417330391069099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the game continued, the Spaniard dominated and triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-3 as he needed only 1 break point that he converted to win the set.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz was even more dominant in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set when Carlos converted 3 of 4 break point opportunities and won the set 6-1 for only 38 minutes. The whole match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes as the break for the bee invasion lasted longer than the clash itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jannik Sinner &amp; Carlos Alcaraz will face each other in the Indian Wells Semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The match we were all hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>Jannik leads the head to head 4-3 &amp; has won their last 2 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Jannik is on a 19 match win streak &amp; hasn\u2019t lost a match in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos is 10-3 in 2024\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yFXSGN7jfc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yFXSGN7jfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1768446701206118757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 15, 2024<\/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>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, defeated world number 6, Alexander Zverev, and advanced to the semifinals at Indian Wells in a match that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480282,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,16732,17698,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17870,17857,18112,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos eliminated Alexander to reach the \u00bd finals in Indian Wells.","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\/480281"}],"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=480281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480284,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480281\/revisions\/480284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480281"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480281"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}