{"id":201806,"date":"2026-03-22T23:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:37:23","slug":"alcaraz-loses-to-sebastian-korda-in-third-round-of-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201806\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz loses to Sebastian Korda in third round of Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 22, 2026, 07:05 PM ET<\/p>\n

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was eliminated in the third round of the Miami Open on Sunday, losing to Sebastian Korda<\/a> in three sets.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Alcaraz, who completed the career Grand Slam when he won the Australian Open<\/a> in January, dropped to 17-2 this season. The No. 1 player in the men’s rankings also lost to Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in the semifinals at Indian Wells last weekend.<\/p>\n

Korda served for the match at 5-4 in the second, but Alcaraz rallied by winning five consecutive games. The 25-year-old Korda then regrouped and closed out a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory in 2 hours, 19 minutes.<\/p>\n

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At No. 36, Korda became the lowest-ranked man to beat Alcaraz since No. 55 David Goffin<\/a> accomplished the feat in the second round in Miami last year, according to the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n

Next up for Korda is the winner of 14th-seeded Karen Khachanov<\/a> versus qualifier Martin Landaluce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Americans Taylor Fritz<\/a> and Tommy Paul<\/a> joined Korda in the fourth round. The sixth-seeded Fritz beat Reilly Opelka<\/a> 6-3, 6-4, and No. 22 seed Paul eliminated Raphael Collignon<\/a> with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5) victory.<\/p>\n

No. 21 Jiri Lehecka<\/a> and No. 29 Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> also were among the winners.<\/p>\n

On the women’s side, No. 3 seed Elena Rybakina<\/a> advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over No. 27 Marta Kostyuk<\/a>. No. 5 Jessica Pegula<\/a> posted a 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 26 Leylah Fernandez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No. 7 Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, No. 9 Elina Svitolina<\/a>, No. 11 Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> and No. 18 Iva Jovic<\/a> were eliminated. Paolini lost to No. 25 Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> in three sets, and Svitolina was knocked out by Hailey Baptiste<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 22, 2026, 07:05 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Carlos Alcaraz was eliminated in the third round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-201806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}