{"id":66639,"date":"2025-08-14T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66639\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:17:08","slug":"alcaraz-turns-on-jets-flies-by-nardi-in-cincinnati-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66639\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Turns on Jets, Flies by Nardi in Cincinnati \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Oddo | Wednesday August 13, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner remain on collision course at the Cincinnati Open. Hours after Sinner defeated Adrian Mannarino, the Spaniard toppled Italy\u2019s Luca Nardi 6-1, 6-4 to reach the last eight at the ATP Masters event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pro-Player-Gear2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54540\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>It was a patchy display from Alcaraz, but he turned up his game after falling behind a break to Nardi in the second set, produced several highlight-reel winners, and closed out the final four games to notch his 51st win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz stretched his winning streak at Masters events to 14, and remained undefeated against players younger than him on tour, at 11-0.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz won an eight-deuce game at 4-4 to put the final nail in Nardi\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this match was the best so far for me in this tournament,\u201d Alcaraz said in his on-court interview. \u201cAt the beginning of the tournament, I just really wanted to get better every day, after every practice and every match. I think I\u2019m doing it, which I\u2019m really proud about. I\u2019m just really happy with the way I felt the ball today and the way that I moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is bidding for his sixth ATP title of the season, and his first in Cincinnati. He lost a thrilling final to Novak Djokovic at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in 2023, a three hour and 49-minute match that saw Djokovic save a championship point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Oddo | Wednesday August 13, 2025 Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner remain on collision course at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-66639","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\/66639","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=66639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}