{"id":495296,"date":"2025-08-31T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495296"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:04:51","slug":"alcaraz-shows-some-magic-to-breeze-past-rinderknech-and-into-us-open-1-4-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-shows-some-magic-to-breeze-past-rinderknech-and-into-us-open-1-4-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz shows some magic to breeze past Rinderknech and into US Open 1\/4-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz lit up Arthur Ashe Stadium with one of the shots of the tournament on Sunday, producing a dazzling behind-the-back winner during his U.S. Open fourth-round clash with Arthur Rinderknech.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the first set, with the score level at 2-2, the No. 2 seed found himself seemingly trapped when Rinderknech wrong-footed him at midcourt. But Alcaraz improvised brilliantly, wrapping his racket around his body and flicking the ball up the line. Caught off guard, Rinderknech netted his reply, leaving the Spaniard to flash a wide grin toward his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero before cupping his ear to the crowd in celebration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now he&#8217;s just showing off \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz goes behind the back! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aoneI7Luae\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aoneI7Luae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1962216392695963701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz went on to take the opening set in a tiebreak after a tight fight and the No. 2 seed altered his return position in the second, dropping deeper to neutralize the Frenchman\u2019s serve. The shift paid off immediately, allowing the Spaniard to dictate rallies with his heavy groundstrokes and ultimately cruise through in two hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old\u2019s triumph marked another milestone: he is now the youngest man in the Open Era to reach 13 Grand Slam quarterfinals. It also continued his dominance in New York, where he has advanced to the last eight in four of his five appearances, including his title run in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz reaches the quarterfinals at all four Slams in one season for the first time in his career! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ndr40MZ1Um\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ndr40MZ1Um<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1962244360440873282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Next up for Alcaraz is 20th seed Jiri Lehecka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz lit up Arthur Ashe Stadium with one of the shots of the tournament on Sunday, producing a dazzling behind-the-back winner during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495297,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,1891],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Spaniard is now the youngest player in the Open Era to reach 13 Grand Slam quarterfinals","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\/495296"}],"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=495296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495298,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495296\/revisions\/495298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495296"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495296"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}