{"id":484889,"date":"2024-07-03T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484889"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:31:26","slug":"alcaraz-breeze-past-qualifier-to-reach-wimbledon-third-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-breeze-past-qualifier-to-reach-wimbledon-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz breeze past qualifier to reach Wimbledon third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz overcame a challenging start against unseeded Australian Aleksandar Vukic to secure a 7-6(5), 6-2, 6-2 victory and advance to the third round on Wednesday. This victory extended Alcaraz&#8217;s winning streak at Wimbledon to nine matches.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, seeded third, initially struggled against Vukic, who is ranked 69th in the world. After breaking for a 4-2 lead, Alcaraz was broken back three games later and found himself trailing 5-6 in the first set. He managed to recover and force a tiebreak, where he built a 5-1 lead before Vukic closed the gap to 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz raised his game again to clinch the set, much to the relief of his Spanish supporters on Court One.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz, you CAN&#8217;T do that \ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlosalcaraz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@carlosalcaraz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DYUN6cwBjR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DYUN6cwBjR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1808525780579647760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the following sets, Alcaraz displayed his formidable blend of power and finesse, amassing 40 winners and dominating the match to ultimately overpower Vukic. The Spaniard&#8217;s performance improved significantly as the match progressed, showcasing why he is the defending champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz on facing Frances Tiafoe next at Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter his match he was saying he\u2019s looking forward to it because \u2018he\u2019s coming after you.\u2019 What do you say to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlos: \u201cI\u2019m coming for him.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>*evil smile* <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pz4hGXQN06\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pz4hGXQN06<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1808525142089453968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz now faces a potentially tough test in the next round against American 29th seed Frances Tiafoe, who defeated Borna Coric 7-6(5), 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz overcame a challenging start against unseeded Australian Aleksandar Vukic to secure a 7-6(5), 6-2, 6-2 victory and advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484890,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17072],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,6273],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard will face Frances Tiafoe in the next round","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\/484889"}],"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=484889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484891,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484889\/revisions\/484891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484889"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484889"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}