{"id":104146,"date":"2026-01-18T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/zverev-comes-back-and-advances-in-the-australian-open-defeats-diallo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:12:47","slug":"zverev-comes-back-and-advances-in-the-australian-open-defeats-diallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/zverev-comes-back-and-advances-in-the-australian-open-defeats-diallo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev Comes Back and Advances in the Australian Open: Defeats Diallo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Zverev Comes Back and Alcaraz Advances in the Australian Open<\/h2>\n\nThe third-seeded tennis player Alexander Zverev overcame a difficult start to advance in his first-round match against Gabriel Diallo at the start of the Australian Open.\n\nZverev, runner-up at Melbourne Park last year, had a difficult start in the first set against the 24-year-old Canadian before recovering thanks to his powerful serve, winning 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 at Rod Laver Arena. With this victory, he secures his presence in the second round at Melbourne Park for the tenth consecutive year.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Definitely, when I saw the draw, to be honest, I didn&#8217;t feel very happy. He&#8217;s very young, very talented. Incredibly aggressive.<\/p><cite>Alexander Zverev<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe world number one, Carlos Alcaraz, who is seeking to complete the Grand Slam in his career, defeated the Australian Adam Walton with a score of 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-2.\n\nFlavio Cobolli, seeded number 20, became the first seeded male player to leave the tournament, losing 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-1 against British qualifier Arthur Fery.\n\nAlexander Bublik, seeded number 10, advanced over Jenson Brooksby with a score of 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Francisco Cerundolo, seeded number 18, defeated Zhang Zhizhen 6-3, 7-6 (0). Frances Tiafoe, seeded number 29, overcame Jason Kubler 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-2.\n\nMichael Zheng defeated Sebastian Korda 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (0), 6-3 in a first-round American matchup.\n\nZheng, a Columbia University star who advanced through the qualifying rounds to make his circuit-level debut, will next face Corentin Moutet, seeded number 32.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zverev Comes Back and Alcaraz Advances in the Australian Open The third-seeded tennis player Alexander Zverev overcame a difficult start to advance in his first-round match against Gabriel Diallo at the start of the Australian Open. Zverev, runner-up at Melbourne Park last year, had a difficult start in the first set against the 24-year-old Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3555,434,172,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-104146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-zverev","9":"tag-australian-open","10":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}