{"id":41428,"date":"2025-09-28T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-advances-to-japan-open-semis-after-defeating-nakashima\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:42:33","slug":"alcaraz-advances-to-japan-open-semis-after-defeating-nakashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/alcaraz-advances-to-japan-open-semis-after-defeating-nakashima\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz advances to Japan Open semis after defeating Nakashima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carlos Alcaraz Advances to Japan Open Semifinals<\/h2>\n\n\nCarlos Alcaraz demonstrated his dominance at the Japan Open by securing his place in the semifinals with a solid victory over Brandon Nakashima.\n\nAfter overcoming concerns about an ankle injury suffered on Thursday, Alcaraz displayed impeccable play, achieving a victory with scores of 6-2 and 6-4. This win places him in the semifinals of a tour-level tournament for the ninth consecutive time.\n\nNakashima couldn&#8217;t counter Alcaraz&#8217;s powerful serve, who connected 25 winners. Although Alcaraz had opportunities to close the match earlier, he failed to convert three match points.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I always say that closing out a match is difficult. Even more difficult when you have match points, as happened to me when I was returning. Losing that game, I thought it was going to be really difficult, but I just tried to stay focused and play some great points in the last game. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve played a last game like this, so I&#8217;m very happy about that.<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the next phase, Alcaraz will face Casper Ruud, who secured his place in the semifinals after defeating Aleksandar Vukic in less than an hour, with a score of 6-3 and 6-2.\n\nTaylor Fritz, seed number two, also managed to advance, defeating Sebastian Korda with a score of 6-3, 6-7 (5) and 6-3. Fritz will face his American compatriot Jenson Brooksby in the semifinals, who defeated the third seed, Holger Rune, with a result of 6-3 and 6-3.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz Advances to Japan Open Semifinals Carlos Alcaraz demonstrated his dominance at the Japan Open by securing his place in the semifinals with a solid victory over Brandon Nakashima. After overcoming concerns about an ankle injury suffered on Thursday, Alcaraz displayed impeccable play, achieving a victory with scores of 6-2 and 6-4. This win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[172,9150,481,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-41428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-japan-open","10":"tag-semifinals","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428","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=41428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}