{"id":794486,"date":"2026-10-07T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794486\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:14:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-defends-japan-open-title-for-first-trophy-since-injury-i-didnt-know-if-i-was-going-to-win-again-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794486\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz defends Japan Open title for first trophy since injury: \u201cI didn\u2019t know if I was going to win again this season\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcaraz acknowledged Tuesday\u2019s performance was his best of the tournament, which set an attendance record for the second straight year, in part due to the World No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The player also admitted that he wasn\u2019t sure if he could win a title this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to take anything for granted to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cI just really wanted to win everything. I didn&#8217;t know if I was going to win the tournament this soon or if I was going to win a tournament this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this tournament, I was way far from my best level I would say. But in terms of finding solutions and playing the best level that I could in the most important moments, I think it was a great week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I&#8217;m really happy about it and I&#8217;m really happy about lifting the trophy in my second official tournament since the injury and hopefully it&#8217;s not going to be the last one this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to try to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alcaraz acknowledged Tuesday\u2019s performance was his best of the tournament, which set an attendance record for the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794486","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=794486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}