{"id":181140,"date":"2025-09-25T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181140\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:24:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-scare-in-japan-open-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181140\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz overcomes ankle ‘scare’ in Japan Open win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sep 25, 2025, 09:06 AM ET<\/p>\n

TOKYO — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> injured his ankle but recovered to beat Sebastian Baez<\/a> 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Japan Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The world No. 1 said he was “scared” when he fell in the first set at 2-2. Alcaraz rubbed his eyes and held his left ankle in visible discomfort.<\/p>\n

“When I planted the ankle, I was worried, because it didn’t feel good at the beginning,” Alcaraz said. “I’m just happy that I was able to play good tennis after that and finish the match quite good. I will try to recover to do whatever it takes to be ready for the next round.”<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz required strapping before continuing the match and securing a place in the third round.<\/p>\n

“I was worried that I wouldn’t have the confidence to finish the match, but the physio came and did some tests,” he said. “It was good I could walk to the bench, and that gave me confidence. I’m trying to have a warrior mentality in every match, in every aspect of everything.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 25, 2025, 09:06 AM ET TOKYO — Carlos Alcaraz injured his ankle but recovered to beat Sebastian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-181140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}