{"id":71212,"date":"2025-08-16T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71212\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:40:07","slug":"cincinnati-open-carlos-alcaraz-beats-andrey-rublev-to-reach-semi-finals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71212\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Carlos Alcaraz beats Andrey Rublev to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surviving the gruelling quarter-final, which took two hours and 17 minutes, meant Alcaraz has made the final four of the event for the second time and reached a 12th ATP 1000 semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old will face 2021 champion Alexander Zverev for a place in the final, after the world number three overcame illness to beat American Ben Shelton in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The German needed a medical timeout at the start of the second set after appearing to struggle with his breathing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The break did little to hinder his performance, as Zverev wrapped up a 6-2 6-2 win in just one hour and 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Right now, I&#8217;m not feeling too great. I&#8217;m not sure what happened,&#8221; said Zverev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came out today and probably felt the best I&#8217;ve felt in a few months. I was feeling the ball incredibly well from both sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the first set, I started feeling not so great, and it got progressively worse. But I&#8217;m in the semi-finals, and I&#8217;ll do everything I can to be 100% tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner and Frenchman Terence Atmane meet in the other semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surviving the gruelling quarter-final, which took two hours and 17 minutes, meant Alcaraz has made the final four&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-71212","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\/71212","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=71212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71212\/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=71212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}