{"id":27779,"date":"2025-03-24T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/second-serve-whats-happening-with-carlos-alcaraz-and-how-alexandra-eala-is-blazing-a-trail\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:55:26","slug":"second-serve-whats-happening-with-carlos-alcaraz-and-how-alexandra-eala-is-blazing-a-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/second-serve-whats-happening-with-carlos-alcaraz-and-how-alexandra-eala-is-blazing-a-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Serve: What’s happening with Carlos Alcaraz and how Alexandra Eala is blazing a trail"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Alcaraz’s struggle to find consistency demonstrates – if we didn’t already know – how hard it is for the world’s leading players to replicate their best every week.<\/p>\n

Jack Draper<\/b> received a reminder in Miami, too.<\/p>\n

Fresh from lifting the Indian Wells title, the British men’s number one was brought back down to earth with an opening defeat by talented Czech 19-year-old Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n

More positively, Emma Raducanu<\/b> answered some of the sceptics with an impressively gritty win over eighth seed Emma Navarro<\/a> and is aiming to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA 1,000 event for the first time.<\/p>\n

The warp-speed rise of Jacob Fearnley<\/b> is showing no signs of stopping yet.<\/p>\n

As we keep reminding you,<\/a> the 23-year-old was still a university student in the United States this time last year and ranked outside of the world’s top 500.<\/p>\n

Now he has provisionally become the British men’s number two – overtaking former world number eight Cameron Norrie<\/b> – and is on course to become a top-75 player when the rankings are updated next week.<\/p>\n

Norrie has plummeted outside the top 80 as his struggles continue, while Dan Evans<\/b> – playing this week at an ATP Challenger in Naples – is on the verge of dropping out of the top 200. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Alcaraz’s struggle to find consistency demonstrates – if we didn’t already know – how hard it is for the world’s leading players to replicate their best every week. Jack Draper received a reminder in Miami, too. Fresh from lifting the Indian Wells title, the British men’s number one was brought back down to earth with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27780,"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\/27779"}],"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=27779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27781,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779\/revisions\/27781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}