{"id":73495,"date":"2025-08-17T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73495\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:00:07","slug":"feeling-bad-carlos-alcaraz-sends-instant-classy-message-to-alexander-zverev-before-heading-straight-to-practice-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73495\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Feeling bad’ – Carlos Alcaraz sends instant classy message to Alexander Zverev before heading straight to practice court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz sent a classy message after beating an ailing Alexander Zverev in straight sets to reach the Cincinnati Open final.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz triumphed 6-4, 6-3 over Zverev, with the German forced to take a medical timeout in the second set.<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alcaraz and Zverev embraced immediately after the end of the matchCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

His opponent, who has type-1 diabetes, was clearly struggling at the end of the match.<\/p>\n

Writing on the camera after the match, Alcaraz wrote: “Happy for the final but feeling bad for Sascha. Wish you all the best.”<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old explained further in his interview after the match.<\/p>\n

He said: “It’s never easy playing against someone that you know is not feeling 100 per cent. It’s even tougher when it comes from Sascha, such a great player, such a great person off the court. <\/p>\n

“We have a really good relationship. It was difficult. I think we started the match playing good tennis, but then all of a sudden he started to feel bad and and my focus was thinking about how he was feeling instead focusing on myself and playing good tennis.”<\/p>\n

“We started the match really good, playing good rallies, a good level of tennis.<\/p>\n

“But then all of a sudden he started to feel bad. And then my focus, I was thinking about how he’s feeling, besides focusing on myself and playing good tennis. <\/p>\n

“It was a really difficult situation for me and I just wish him all the best.”<\/p>\n

That victory was the 25th career win over a top five player in just his 37th match – with only Roger Federer<\/a> reaching that milestone faster in 36 games.<\/p>\n

He is also the youngest player (22 years 94 days) to reach three consecutive Masters 1000 finals since Novak Djokovic<\/a> in 2009 (21 years 341 days).<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alcaraz sent a message to Zverev immediately after the matchCredit: Tennis channel<\/p>\n

After that quick end to the second set, Alcaraz headed straight to the practice court less than an hour after the match ended.<\/p>\n

He was seen hitting serves in preparation for the Cincinnati Open final.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz will face Jannik Sinner<\/a> in Sunday’s showpiece event – the fourth straight tournament where they’ve met in the final.<\/p>\n

Sinner celebrated his 24th birthday by halting French wildcard Terence Atmane’s surprise run to the last four in a 7-6 (4) 6-2 win.<\/p>\n

World number 136 Atmane – who had never been inside the top 100 but will now climb to 69 – went toe-to-toe with Sinner in a tight opening set, but the defending champion found an extra gear in the tie-break and cruised to victory in the second.<\/p>\n

It was Sinner’s 26th successive hard-court win and his 12th in a row on all surfaces.<\/p>\n

World number one Sinner and second-ranked Alcaraz will meet in a repeat of the French Open and Wimbledon finals earlier this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz sent a classy message after beating an ailing Alexander Zverev in straight sets to reach the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[37672,37673,7570,870,13301,101,118,872,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-73495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alcaraz","tag-alcaraz-vs-zverev","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495","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=73495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}