{"id":485906,"date":"2024-08-02T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485906"},"modified":"2024-08-02T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:58:01","slug":"alcaraz-beats-auger-aliassime-2-0-sets-to-reach-final-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-beats-auger-aliassime-2-0-sets-to-reach-final-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz beats Auger-Aliassime 2-0 sets to reach final at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz from Spain eliminated Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada after a straight sets victory and advanced to the final of the Olympic Games in Paris, where he will try to win the gold medal against either Musetti or Djokovic as they will face each other later today in the other \u00bd final.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz dominated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set and won it 6-1 after converting 3 break chances from 5 opportunities, while his Canadian opponent didn\u2019t have a single break chance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alcaraz d. Auger Aliassime 6-1 6-1<\/p>\n<p>At 21 years old, competing in his first-ever Olympics, Carlos reaches the final &amp; guarantees a medal for Spain<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now won 20 of his last 21 matches<\/p>\n<p>\u270512th consecutive win<br \/>\u270512th consecutive win at Roland Garros<\/p>\n<p>Unstoppable right now<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BuihMZDF79\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BuihMZDF79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1819356706532741163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carlos converted a break in Auger-Aliassime\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> serve game in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set to take a 3-1 lead and then continued to have break chances as the Spaniard converted a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> break to take a 5-1 game lead and to serve for the final. The Spaniard had no problems and closed the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set also 6-1 and will compete for the gold on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos will have the opportunity to win a gold medal in his debut Olympics as he became the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> youngest \u00bd finalist at Olympic Games only behind Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz from Spain eliminated Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada after a straight sets victory and advanced to the final of the Olympic Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485907,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16732,16944,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[18357,17857,18443,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard will play for the gold medal on Sunday.","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\/485906"}],"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=485906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485908,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485906\/revisions\/485908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485906"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485906"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}