{"id":41337,"date":"2025-09-28T05:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-scare-and-advances-in-the-japan-open-4\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:13:42","slug":"alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-scare-and-advances-in-the-japan-open-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-scare-and-advances-in-the-japan-open-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Overcomes Ankle Scare and Advances in the Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alcaraz Advances in the Japan Open After Overcoming Ankle Injury<\/h2>\n\nTOKYO &#8211; Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, number one in the world, managed to advance to the next round of the Japan Open after defeating Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez with a score of 6-4, 6-2. The match, however, was marked by an incident that generated concern among the public.\n\nDuring the first set, with the score tied at 2-2, Alcaraz suffered a sprained ankle that forced him to stop the game. Visibly affected, the tennis player grabbed his left ankle showing signs of pain.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen I supported my ankle, I got scared, because at first it didn&#8217;t feel good,\u201d Alcaraz stated.<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDespite the injury, Alcaraz received medical attention and was able to continue the match. After receiving a bandage on his ankle, the tennis player regained his level and secured his place in the third round.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI was worried about not having the confidence to finish the match, but the physio came and did some tests,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt was good that I could walk to the bench, and that gave me confidence. I am trying to have a warrior mentality in every match, in every aspect of everything.\u201d<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz Advances in the Japan Open After Overcoming Ankle Injury TOKYO &#8211; Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, number one in the world, managed to advance to the next round of the Japan Open after defeating Sebasti\u00e1n B\u00e1ez with a score of 6-4, 6-2. The match, however, was marked by an incident that generated concern among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1597,172,98,9150],"class_list":{"0":"post-41337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-ankle","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-injured","10":"tag-japan-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41337","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=41337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}