{"id":495324,"date":"2025-09-05T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495324"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:44:05","slug":"alcaraz-eliminates-djokovic-in-straight-sets-to-reach-the-us-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-eliminates-djokovic-in-straight-sets-to-reach-the-us-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz eliminates Djokovic in straight sets to reach the US Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz gave no chance to Novak Djokovic and beat him 3-0 sets at Arthur Ashe Stadium in the Big Apple to reach the US Open final as the most competitive set was the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, which the Spaniard won after a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>An early break for Alcaraz was enough for the Spaniard to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set as he beat Djokovic 6-4 without allowing any break opportunities to his Serbian opponent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic for the very first time on hard courts! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2ONU47L0a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/H2ONU47L0a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1964081609931407733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, however, Nole struck 1st and broke Carlos\u2019 serve and took a 3-0 games lead, but after that, Alcaraz returned the break and tied 3-3 games. The set was decided after a tiebreak in which Djokovic won only 1 of his serves and lost it as the Spaniard took a 2-0 lead, and that was the crucial moment after which it became clear that Carlos would triumph.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, Nole lost his serve when he was trying to tie the result 2-2, and Carlos took a 3-1 lead. Alcaraz broke Nole\u2019s serve again and won the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set 6-2 to close the \u00bd final in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Alcaraz will play against either Sinner or Auger-Aliassime as the Italian is the huge favorite to win the upcoming match and face his big competitor for the Grand Slams in the past 2 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Alcaraz is closing in on the finish line. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJ81KG2ZTh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bJ81KG2ZTh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1964080305330852139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz gave no chance to Novak Djokovic and beat him 3-0 sets at Arthur Ashe Stadium in the Big Apple to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495326,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,16740],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,17855],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Spaniard was the better player in the \u00bd final against the Serbian.","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\/495324"}],"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=495324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495327,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495324\/revisions\/495327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495324"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495324"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}