{"id":23189,"date":"2024-10-02T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/china-open-carlos-alcaraz-recovers-to-beat-jannik-sinner-in-dramatic-final\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:00:29","slug":"china-open-carlos-alcaraz-recovers-to-beat-jannik-sinner-in-dramatic-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/china-open-carlos-alcaraz-recovers-to-beat-jannik-sinner-in-dramatic-final\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Carlos Alcaraz recovers to beat Jannik Sinner in dramatic final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since suffering a shock second-round exit at the US Open, Alcaraz has bounced back to win nine matches in a row, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c3wp1xl3vplo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">helping Team Europe win the Laver Cup<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz appeared to be on track for the perfect start when he moved into a 5-2 lead in the opening set, however, Sinner saved two set points to force a tie-break, which he went on to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pivotal moment in the second arrived in the ninth game, when Alcaraz seized his opportunity to secure a break before serving out for the set to take it to a decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has been little to separate the pair in the early stages of their careers, with their head-to-head record now 6-4 in Alcaraz&#8217;s favour, and it was another fine example of what the future of tennis has to offer in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner has made a habit of winning big games over the course of 2024, prevailing in all six of his previous finals &#8211; including the Australian Open and US Open &#8211; and he found an extra gear to mount another fightback in the final set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trailing 4-2 in the third, Sinner won three successive games to wrestle back momentum and send the encounter to a match-deciding tie-break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner looked firmly in control after opening up a 3-0 advantage, but Alcaraz would not be denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He rattled off seven successive points to claim victory and make it three wins on the bounce against the two-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During the whole week I&#8217;ve been playing great tennis, some luck went to my side but I felt great on the court too,&#8221; Alcaraz said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win means he is the first player to win an ATP 500 title on all three surfaces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce8v6560lnro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since suffering a shock second-round exit at the US Open, Alcaraz has bounced back to win nine matches in a row, including helping Team Europe win the Laver Cup last month. Alcaraz appeared to be on track for the perfect start when he moved into a 5-2 lead in the opening set, however, Sinner saved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23190,"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\/23189"}],"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=23189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23191,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions\/23191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}