{"id":486393,"date":"2024-08-16T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486393"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:25:46","slug":"minfils-comes-back-to-eliminate-alcaraz-in-cincinati","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/minfils-comes-back-to-eliminate-alcaraz-in-cincinati\/","title":{"rendered":"Monfils comes back to eliminate Alcaraz in Cincinati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gael Monfils pulled off a remarkable comeback to defeat world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. After dropping the first set 4-6, the veteran Frenchman fought back to win the second set in a tense tie-break, eventually clinching a 4-6, 7-6(7-5), 6-4 victory over the young Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils, who recently competed in the Olympic Games in his home country but did not secure a medal, showed resilience and experience in the match. Alcaraz, fresh off his silver medal in Paris and aiming for a Grand Slam hat-trick after winning the French Open and Wimbledon this year, appeared to have control after taking the first set. However, Monfils mounted a strong comeback, particularly in the tie-break, where he was down 3-1 before rain delayed the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The video of Carlos Alcaraz\u2019 racquet smash. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen Carlos this frustrated on the court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c02vURTjPA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/c02vURTjPA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1824522181482803255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When play resumed, Monfils maintained his composure to win the tie-break, setting up a decisive third set. The 37-year-old capitalized on his momentum, while Alcaraz grew visibly frustrated, especially when he missed a break opportunity and smashed his racquet in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils&#8217; unexpected victory advances him to the round of 16, where he will face Holger Rune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gael Monfils pulled off a remarkable comeback to defeat world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,20962,20863],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,20963,20864],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard was smashing rackets amid his bad performance after the first set","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\/486393"}],"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=486393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486396,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486393\/revisions\/486396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486393"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486393"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}