{"id":168440,"date":"2025-09-25T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:19:06","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-injury-scare-to-advance-at-japan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168440\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz overcomes ankle injury scare to advance at Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz injured his ankle and recovered to beat Sebastian Baez 6-4, 6-2 in the Japan Open second round on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The world No. 1 said he was \u201cscared\u201d when he fell in the first set. Alcaraz rubbed his eyes and held his left ankle in visible discomfort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I planted the ankle, I was worried, because it didn\u2019t feel good at the beginning,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201dI\u2019m just happy that I was able to play good tennis after that and finish the match quite good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI will try to recover to do whatever it takes to be ready for the next round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alcaraz required strapping before continuing the match and securing a place in the third round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI was worried that I wouldn\u2019t have the confidence to finish the match, but the physio came and did some tests,\u201d he said. \u201dIt was good I could walk to the bench and that gave me confidence. I\u2019m trying to have a warrior mentality in every match, in every aspect of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz injured his ankle and recovered to beat Sebastian Baez 6-4, 6-2 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-168440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}