{"id":318903,"date":"2025-11-30T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:36:14","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-watches-lionel-messi-inter-miami-make-history-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318903\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz watches Lionel Messi &#038; Inter Miami make history | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Off Court News<br \/>\n    Alcaraz watches Messi &amp; Inter Miami make history<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard brings trophy out to the pitch<\/p>\n<p>November 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alcaraz-messi-november-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz congratulates Lionel Messi on Inter Miami's victory Saturday evening in Florida.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Carlos Alcaraz congratulates Lionel Messi on Inter Miami&#8217;s victory Saturday evening in Florida.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Lionel Messi stood on the same star-studded stage Saturday evening in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, who recently earned ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours, handed Messi&#8217;s Inter Miami CF a trophy for reaching the final of the MLS Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the evening, Messi winked at Alcaraz on his way out to the pitch. Alcaraz, the World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, also spent time with Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lionel Messi greets Carlos Alcaraz at Inter Miami's match Saturday in Florida.\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/messi-alcaraz-november-2025.jpg\"\/><br \/>Photos: AFP\/Getty Images<br \/>Inter Miami defeated NYC FC 5-1 to reach the MLS Cup for the first time, with Alcaraz bringing their award for winning the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is enjoying his offseason following a memorable campaign during which he tallied a 71-9 record and claimed a career-best eight titles according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/djokovic-on-messi-miami-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Messi was in attendance at this year&#8217;s Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a>, the season&#8217;s second ATP Masters 1000 event. The Argentine watched Novak Djokovic win his semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off Court News Alcaraz watches Messi &amp; Inter Miami make history Spaniard brings trophy out to the pitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-318903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318903","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=318903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}