{"id":21275,"date":"2024-08-17T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cincinnati-open-jack-draper-earns-controversial-win-as-carlos-alcaraz-smashes-racquet-in-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T17:09:26","slug":"cincinnati-open-jack-draper-earns-controversial-win-as-carlos-alcaraz-smashes-racquet-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cincinnati-open-jack-draper-earns-controversial-win-as-carlos-alcaraz-smashes-racquet-in-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Jack Draper earns controversial win as Carlos Alcaraz smashes racquet in defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz was beaten 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 by France&#8217;s Monfils in a second-round match carried over from the previous day because of rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old Spaniard, who has won the French Open and Wimbledon titles this year, smashed his racquet after failing to break Monfils, 37, in the third set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt sometimes that I wanted to break the racquet,&#8221; said Alcaraz immediately after the defeat. &#8220;It never happened before, because I could control myself in those situations, in those feelings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today, I couldn&#8217;t control myself, because, as I said, I was feeling that I was not playing any kind of tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Olympic silver-medallist later apologised for his behaviour on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-xgp2uqfJc\/?hl=en-gb\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">official Instagram account<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> and said he would work on ensuring there would be no repeat at the US Open, which starts on 26 August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to apologise for my attitude yesterday, it was not good and that should not happen on court,&#8221; he wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I\u2019m human, the nerves had accumulated and sometimes it\u2019s very tough to control when there is that tension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will work so that it doesn\u2019t happen again. Now it\u2019s time to think about NYC!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monfils went on to play Rune  and was beaten 3-6 6-3 6-4 by the Dane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, women&#8217;s world number one Iga Swiatek made it into the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals with a comfortable 6-2 6-2 win against Marta Kostyuk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will play Mirra Andreeva, who beat Italy&#8217;s Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini 3-6 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy I was solid. I was disciplined with all the things that I wanted to take care of,&#8221; said Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aryna Sabalenka secured a 7-5 6-2 victory against Elina Svitolina, while Jessica Pegula won a delayed second-round match against Karolina Muchova 5-7 6-4 6-2 before beating Taylor Townsend 6-2 6-3 in her second match of the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ckgw2gkwg4vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz was beaten 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 by France&#8217;s Monfils in a second-round match carried over from the previous day because of rain. The 21-year-old Spaniard, who has won the French Open and Wimbledon titles this year, smashed his racquet after failing to break Monfils, 37, in the third set. &#8220;I felt sometimes that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21277,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions\/21277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}