{"id":495674,"date":"2025-09-27T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495674"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:56:37","slug":"alcaraz-praises-his-physio-for-overcoming-ankle-injury-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-praises-his-physio-for-overcoming-ankle-injury-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz praises his physio for overcoming ankle injury in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz overcame his left foot injury to advance to the third round of the Japan Open in Tokyo, defeating Zizou Bergs despite heavy strapping and lingering discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Grand Slam champion worried his fans earlier in the week when he collapsed awkwardly during his first-round match against Sebastian Baez. For a brief moment, it appeared he might be forced to retire, but after a medical timeout, he carried on and secured a straight-sets victory. Even so, reports from Spain indicated he was still in pain the following day.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening Alcaraz walked onto the court with his left foot heavily taped. Early on, the Spaniard looked vulnerable, dropping two of the first three games to fall behind a break. But as the match went on, the Spaniard started to feel more comfortable and showed his famous resilience to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>Right after the game, the 22-year-old was quick to thank his physiotherapist, Juanjo Moreno, for helping him recover in time to compete.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz playing Carlos Alcaraz tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting big, smiling big. \ud83d\ude80\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PpmiUPLP3a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PpmiUPLP3a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1971878587612684647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough, and it was a really important day and a half I had to recover as good as I could,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cI have said it before, and I will say it again, I have the best physio in the world, who I trust 100 per cent. The work he has done for the ankle has been great. Sometimes I was worried about some movements, when I could feel the ankle, but in general I played some great tennis, a great match.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u201cIt was tough, to be honest, I had a really important day and a half to recover as good as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz shares ankle injury update and physio praise<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kinoshitajotennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kinoshitajotennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1x74jfQkt9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1x74jfQkt9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1971885734303813887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 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 overcame his left foot injury to advance to the third round of the Japan Open in Tokyo, defeating Zizou Bergs despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[17857,18071],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The US Open champion managed to play his second-round game in Japan and won against Zizou Bergs","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\/495674"}],"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=495674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495676,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495674\/revisions\/495676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495674"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495674"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}