{"id":491727,"date":"2026-02-22T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:11:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-wraps-up-qatar-open-title-in-just-50-minutes-to-maintain-unbeaten-start-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491727\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz wraps up Qatar Open title in just 50 minutes to maintain unbeaten start to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DOHA, Qatar (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz raced to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Arthur Fils to win the final of the Qatar Open in just 50 minutes on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old Spanish star extended his winning streak to 12 matches in 2026, 20 days after he became the youngest player to complete a career Grand Slam at the Australian Open \u2014 that\u2019s winning all four of the tennis majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a really strong start to the year,\u201d Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winning the title in Doha brought his tally to 26 tour-level titles.<\/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":"DOHA, Qatar (AP) \u2014 Carlos Alcaraz raced to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Arthur Fils to win the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-491727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491727","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=491727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}