{"id":73227,"date":"2025-08-10T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:51:07","slug":"tennis-live-carlos-alcaraz-snubbed-as-cincinnati-open-star-retires-despite-huge-lead-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73227\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Carlos Alcaraz snubbed as Cincinnati Open star retires despite huge lead | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/emma-raducanu\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> has shared some blunt early conversations with Francis Roig.<\/p>\n<p>The British No. 1 says they have both agreed that all of her shots need to improve, particularly if she is to consistently challenge the likes of Aryna Sabalenka &#8211; her next Cincinnati Open opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just, &#8216;the level needs to be better&#8217;. In a good way, not in a negative way. It\u2019s just calling it how it is,&#8221; Raducanu said of her conversations with the Spaniard, who coached <a href=\"https:\/\/express.co.uk\/latest\/rafael-nadal\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> to each of his 22 Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I\u2019m very like that. I\u2019m very factual and I don\u2019t necessarily like fluffing something up. I think that\u2019s where we get on really well and we understand each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just in general, everything is like: \u2018We need to improve. We need to get every shot better.\u2019 And that\u2019s exciting, because I feel like there\u2019s a lot of potential to go and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m near it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always feel a little bit of nerves before the first round, but I think that overall, I\u2019m approaching everything in a lot more calm way, mature, and I think I\u2019m trusting a lot more the work I\u2019m doing behind the scenes. I know I\u2019m putting a lot of hours in, and it takes some of the pressure off of the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the way I\u2019m playing, the movements of my shot, improving the quality of my shot. There were four or five points where I did something that we were working on, and it\u2019s always really satisfying and rewarding when you hit a shot and you\u2019ve worked on it in practice. So I think I\u2019m going to improve a lot, hopefully doing the work day in, day out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has shared some blunt early conversations with Francis Roig. The British No. 1 says they have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[652,2073,15056,37370,1701,52348,432,99,428,9519,11883,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-73227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-open","12":"tag-emma-raducanu","13":"tag-grand-slams","14":"tag-jannik-sinner","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-section","18":"tag-us-open","19":"tag-wimbledon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227","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=73227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}