{"id":483965,"date":"2024-06-07T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483965"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:01:10","slug":"alcaraz-beats-sinners-in-5-sets-to-reach-french-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-beats-sinners-in-5-sets-to-reach-french-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz beats Sinners in 5 sets to reach French Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 3, won the match against world number 2, and from the new week new number 1, Jannik Sinner, and advanced to the Grand Slam final on clay in Paris for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time ever as both tennis players spent more than 4 hours on the court.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian dominated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set as he allowed his Spanish opponent to break his serve, but on the other hand, Sinner converted 3 break points from 4 chances and close the set 6-2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Alcaraz becomes the youngest man in history to reach a Grand Slam final on all 3 surfaces. <\/p>\n<p>Agassi, Borg, Nadal, &amp; Courier all did it at the age of 22. <\/p>\n<p>Today, Carlitos did it at 21 years old. <\/p>\n<p>Massive moment for him, massive moment for tennis. \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91ZehqWqCr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/91ZehqWqCr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1799121587901440377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Alcaraz triumphed in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set as he needed 2 breaks to win the set as he allowed Sinner only 1 break.<\/p>\n<p>Jannik took the lead again by winning the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set as he saved 6 break points and allowed Carlos to break his serve only once but converting 2 break chances from 4 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>After the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, Sinner was visible not at his best fitness level and Alcaraz took advantage and won the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set to tie the sets 2-2 as the Spaniard needed only 1 break to triumph as his Italian opponent didn\u2019t have any break chances.<\/p>\n<p>In the final set, Carlos again won after only 1 converted break as Jannik again finished the set without break opportunities as the Italian fitness condition without a doubt cost him the chance to be more competitive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment that mattered for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ze8gmjwgnO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ze8gmjwgnO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1799122231840194778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz will play in the final at the French Open on Sunday against Zverev or Ruud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 3, won the match against world number 2, and from the new week new number 1, Jannik Sinner, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483966,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,19432,17625,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,19433,18543,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos eliminated Jannik to reach his 1st ever Roland-Garros final.","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\/483965"}],"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=483965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483968,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483965\/revisions\/483968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483965"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483965"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}