{"id":173265,"date":"2025-09-27T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173265\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:19:07","slug":"alcaraz-reaches-japan-open-quarterfinals-and-praises-physio-for-ankle-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173265\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz reaches Japan Open quarterfinals and praises physio for ankle treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Zizou Bergs on Saturday and then paid tribute to his physiotherapist following an ankle injury scare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The top-ranked Alcaraz landed awkwardly on his left ankle during his opening match on Thursday and was unsure how he would feel against Bergs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He held up well, saying he \u201ccould play normally,\u201d and set up a last-eight meeting with Brandon Nakashima of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt was tough and it was a really important day and a half I had to recover as good as I could,\u201d Alcaraz said when asked about his ankle. \u201cI have said it before and I will say it again, I have the best physio in the world, who I trust 100%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe work he has done for the ankle has been great. I could play normally, which is great. Sometimes I was worried about some movements, when I could feel the ankle, but in general I played some great tennis, a great match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-173265","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\/173265","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=173265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}