{"id":70575,"date":"2025-08-16T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70575\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:54:07","slug":"cincinnati-open-carlos-alcaraz-beats-andrey-rublev-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70575\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Carlos Alcaraz beats Andrey Rublev to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Carlos Alcaraz battled past Andrey Rublev 6-3 4-6 7-5 to reach the Cincinnati Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spaniard took control with the first set, but his Russian opponent produced an excellent fightback to level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 11 Rublev&#8217;s quality faltered, though, in the tense and decisive third set as he committed two double faults, including one on match point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I maintained positive thoughts all the time, even though I lost focus a few times during the second set,&#8221; said Alcaraz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Playing someone like Andrey, when you lose focus on two or three points, it [can] cost you the set or almost the match. I just stayed strong mentally and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m most proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number two Carlos Alcaraz battled past Andrey Rublev 6-3 4-6 7-5 to reach the Cincinnati Open semi-finals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-70575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}