{"id":8405,"date":"2025-05-30T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-suffers-but-advances-at-roland-garros-shelton-in-the-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:30:56","slug":"alcaraz-suffers-but-advances-at-roland-garros-shelton-in-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/alcaraz-suffers-but-advances-at-roland-garros-shelton-in-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Suffers But Advances at Roland Garros: Shelton in the Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"The current champion, Carlos Alcaraz, advanced to the fourth round of the French Open after a tough match against Damir Dzumhur, with a score of 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Friday night session.\n\n<p>The Spanish tennis player, seeded number two, had never played against Dzumhur before, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never advanced past the third round in a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I suffered quite a bit today. The first two sets were under control, then he started playing with more depth and aggressiveness. It was really difficult for me.<\/p><cite>Carlos Alcaraz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDzumhur suffered a left knee injury and received treatment on his right leg during the set change in the third set. Despite the physical difficulties, Dzumhur offered notable resistance.\n\n<p>The crowd at the Philippe-Chatrier court showed their support with the Mexican wave and shouts of &#8220;Ol\u00e9&#8221;. Dzumhur received applause for his plays, including an improbable smash.<\/p>\n\n<p>Alcaraz finally secured the victory on his second match point and will now face Ben Shelton, ranked number 13, in the fourth round.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0530%2Fr1500539_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Liderados por Ben Shelton (arriba), Frances Tiafoe y Tommy Paul, Estados Unidos tendr\u00e1 a tres hombres en la cuarta ronda del Abierto de Francia por primera vez desde 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Shelton will make his first appearance in the round of 16 at Roland Garros after defeating Matteo Gigante with a score of 6-3, 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n\nWith Tommy Paul&#8217;s victory over Karen Khachanov and Frances Tiafoe&#8217;s victory over Sebastian Korda, the United States will have three male representatives in the fourth round of the French Open for the first time since 1995.\n\n<p>In other Friday third-round results, Italy&#8217;s Lorenzo Musetti defeated Mariano Navone, and Denmark&#8217;s Holger Rune overcame Quentin Halys in five sets. Australia&#8217;s Alexei Popyrin also advanced.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current champion, Carlos Alcaraz, advanced to the fourth round of the French Open after a tough match against Damir Dzumhur, with a score of 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Friday night session. The Spanish tennis player, seeded number two, had never played against Dzumhur before, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never advanced past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3201,172,813,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-8405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben-shelton","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-french-open","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}