{"id":116534,"date":"2026-04-14T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-overcomes-complicated-debut-in-godo-beats-virtanen-and-deals-with-discomfort\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:18:30","slug":"alcaraz-overcomes-complicated-debut-in-godo-beats-virtanen-and-deals-with-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/alcaraz-overcomes-complicated-debut-in-godo-beats-virtanen-and-deals-with-discomfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz overcomes complicated debut in God\u00f3: Beats Virtanen and deals with discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"Barcelona \u2013 Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz began his participation in the Conde God\u00f3 Trophy with a victory, defeating the Finnish player Otto Virtanen, coming from the qualifying round, with a score of 6-4 and 6-2.\n\nThe match presented challenges for Alcaraz, who committed 32 unforced errors, an unusual figure in his performance, and required medical assistance for discomfort in his right wrist.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s hard to get good feelings at the beginning.<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe world number two downplayed his debut in the tournament, highlighting the difficulty of adapting quickly after the final of the Monte Carlo Masters 1,000, where he fell to Jannik Sinner.\n\nAlcaraz explained that the lack of rest time and only one training session on the Barcelona court influenced his initial performance.\n\nThe tennis player from Murcia acknowledged that it was difficult for him to find his rhythm, but he managed to adapt to the conditions in Barcelona and finish the match at a good level.\n\nAlcaraz also mentioned that the battle for the number one spot is an extra motivation to win in Barcelona.\n\nThe tennis player thanked the public for their support and downplayed the discomfort in his right wrist, attributing it to the physical demands of the clay court.\n\nHe assured that these inconveniences are recurrent and have not had major consequences in the past.\n\nConfident in being in optimal condition for his next match against Tomas Machac in the round of 16.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona \u2013 Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz began his participation in the Conde God\u00f3 Trophy with a victory, defeating the Finnish player Otto Virtanen, coming from the qualifying round, with a score of 6-4 and 6-2. The match presented challenges for Alcaraz, who committed 32 unforced errors, an unusual figure in his performance, and required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[172,2520,12518,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-116534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-doll","10":"tag-godo-trophy","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116534","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=116534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}