{"id":274992,"date":"2025-11-10T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274992\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:03:13","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-v-alex-de-minaur-scores-results-format-videos-highlights-latest-news-match-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274992\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz v Alex de Minaur, scores, results, format, videos, highlights, latest news, match report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No.2 Carlos Alcaraz made a solid start to the ATP Finals in Turin on Sunday with a 7-6 (7\/5), 6-2 win over Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time that the Spaniard had won his opening match at the finals. He lost to Alexander Zverev and Casper Ruud in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>It was not all plain sailing. Leading 4-1 and pressing for 5-1 in the first set, Alcaraz suffered a sudden dip, struggling with his first serves and allowing De Minaur to come back to level the score.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trailing 3-1 and then 5-3 in the tiebreak, Alcaraz rediscovered his touch to level and then break De Minaur to win the first set.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of dropping his service early, the second set was more straightforward as Alcaraz raced away to claim his fifth victory in as many meetings with De Minaur.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really difficult match,\u201d said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this surface, Alex makes the most of the speed of the ball, he\u2019s super fast and really difficult on return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just really happy to get through this really difficult challenge, and happy with how I\u2019m playing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz and De Minaur are in the Jimmy Connors group which also features Taylor Fritz and Lorenzo Musetti, a late replacement for the injured Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, Alexander Zverev faces Ben Shelton in the first match of the Bjorn Bjorg group, which also includes world No.1 Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No.2 Carlos Alcaraz made a solid start to the ATP Finals in Turin on Sunday with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[2620,18278,5244,6567,64,63,689,21693,962,2057,2328,42989,28258,159657,11471,159656,3592,677,158079,3595,2020,85,159658,3599,747,37659,119419],"class_list":["post-274992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-atp-finals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-shelton","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-europe","tag-italy","tag-jimmy-connors","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-masterclass-downs","tag-match-report","tag-multiple-highlights","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-oceania","tag-set-semi-win","tag-southern-europe","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-sudden-dip","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-tournament","tag-turin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}