{"id":333218,"date":"2025-12-06T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333218\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:24:07","slug":"frances-tiafoes-path-to-his-best-tennis-starts-with-overcoming-carlos-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333218\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe&#8217;s path to his &#8216;best tennis&#8217; starts with overcoming Carlos Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s merely an exhibition, with the tennis Grand Slam season still more than a month away with the 2026 Australian Open in January.<\/p>\n<p>But for Frances Tiafoe, Sunday\u2019s \u201cRacquet at the Rock\u2019\u2019 exhibition at the Prudential Center represents opportunity on several levels.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Tiafoe has much he still would like to accomplish in tennis, and the unique event at Prudential Center, where he will play world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, is an important moment for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to grow the game \u2014 especially in places where there isn\u2019t a lot of tennis,\u2019\u2019 Tiafoe told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s merely an exhibition, with the tennis Grand Slam season still more than a month away with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2073,15511,99,362,358,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-333218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-frances-tiafoe","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-columnists","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333218","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=333218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}