Sep 27, 2025, 07:15 AM ET<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> paid tribute to his medical team after shrugging off concerns about an ankle injury to reach the quarterfinals of the Japan Open.<\/p>\n The world No. 1 looked to be in real trouble after landing awkwardly on his left ankle during his opening match Thursday. But there were no real alarms for Alcaraz in a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Zizou Bergs<\/a>, setting up a quarterfinal against American Brandon Nakashima<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I said before and I’m going to say it again, I have the best physio in the world who I trust 100%, and the work he has done for the ankle, I think, has been great,” Alcaraz said. “I could play, I would say, normally. I was worried about some movements on the court where I could feel the ankle, but in general I think I played a great match.”<\/p>\n Alcaraz has won seven titles this season, including the French and US Opens.<\/p>\n PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 27, 2025, 07:15 AM ET Carlos Alcaraz paid tribute to his medical team after shrugging off concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-186428","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\/186428","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=186428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}