{"id":28451,"date":"2025-08-26T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-debuts-powerfully-at-us-open-2025-defeats-opelka-and-advances\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:07:30","slug":"alcaraz-debuts-powerfully-at-us-open-2025-defeats-opelka-and-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/alcaraz-debuts-powerfully-at-us-open-2025-defeats-opelka-and-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Debuts Powerfully at US Open 2025: Defeats Opelka and Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alcaraz Advances with Authority at the US Open 2025<\/h2>\n\nCarlos Alcaraz, current world number two, began his participation in the 2025 US Open with a dominant victory over American Reilly Opelka.\n\nThe Spanish tennis player demonstrated his superiority by defeating Opelka, ranked 67th, with scores of 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4, in a match that lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes. Alcaraz did not concede a single game to the American, highlighting his performance.\n\nIn the next round, Alcaraz will face Italian Mattia Bellucci, who advanced due to the withdrawal of Chinese Shang Juncheng.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s very difficult when you play against someone who doesn&#8217;t let you play your game<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlcaraz achieved an impeccable first set, winning most of his points with an effective serve. He managed to break Opelka&#8217;s serve to take the lead and secure the set.\n\nOpelka, known for his powerful serve, tried to maintain the pace, but had difficulties defending his service, committing unforced errors.\n\nThe match remained close in the second set, but Alcaraz achieved a crucial &#8216;break&#8217; to avoid the tiebreaker, taking the set.\n\nThe third set followed a similar dynamic, with Alcaraz securing a decisive &#8216;break&#8217; and winning his service game to close out the match.\n\nAlcaraz expressed his satisfaction with his performance, especially with how he managed the game against an opponent with a powerful serve.\n\nWith this victory, Alcaraz adds his 55th win in the 2025 season, leading the list of matches won on the circuit, and also tops the list of titles won with six.\n\nIn his next match, Alcaraz will seek to surpass the results of 2024.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz Advances with Authority at the US Open 2025 Carlos Alcaraz, current world number two, began his participation in the 2025 US Open with a dominant victory over American Reilly Opelka. The Spanish tennis player demonstrated his superiority by defeating Opelka, ranked 67th, with scores of 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4, in a match that lasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[172,7855,167,3162],"class_list":{"0":"post-28451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-reilly-opelka","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451","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=28451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}