{"id":116577,"date":"2026-04-15T04:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-struggles-in-godo-debut-beats-virtanen-and-reveals-discomfort\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:57:21","slug":"alcaraz-struggles-in-godo-debut-beats-virtanen-and-reveals-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/alcaraz-struggles-in-godo-debut-beats-virtanen-and-reveals-discomfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Struggles in God\u00f3 Debut: Beats Virtanen and Reveals Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alcaraz starts his participation in the Conde de God\u00f3 Trophy with a victory<\/h2>\n\nBarcelona \u2013 Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz successfully debuted at the Conde de God\u00f3 Trophy, defeating Finn Otto Virtanen, who came from the qualifying round, with scores of 6-4 and 6-2.\n\nThe match, although favorable for Alcaraz, presented unexpected challenges. The world number two committed 32 unforced errors, an unusual figure in his performance, and required medical assistance for discomfort in his right wrist.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s taken a little while, it&#8217;s complicated to get good feelings at the beginning. The only contact has been an hour this morning. It&#8217;s taken me a while to find the rhythm, but I&#8217;ve managed to adapt to the conditions in Barcelona and I&#8217;ve ended up playing at a good level,\u201d expressed the tennis player.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlcaraz acknowledged that the short rest time after the Masters 1,000 in Monte Carlo, where he fell in the final, and only one training session on the Barcelona clay, influenced his initial performance.\n\nThe tennis player from Murcia highlighted the importance of the public&#8217;s support, which filled the Rafael Nadal court, and downplayed the discomfort in his right wrist, attributing it to the physical effort involved in clay court play.\n\nAlcaraz assured that these discomforts are recurrent and trusts that they will not affect his participation in the next match against the Czech Tomas Machac, in the round of 16.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz starts his participation in the Conde de God\u00f3 Trophy with a victory Barcelona \u2013 Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz successfully debuted at the Conde de God\u00f3 Trophy, defeating Finn Otto Virtanen, who came from the qualifying round, with scores of 6-4 and 6-2. The match, although favorable for Alcaraz, presented unexpected challenges. The world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[172,2520,12518,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-116577","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\/116577","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=116577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}