{"id":20464,"date":"2024-02-16T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-seed-carlos-alcaraz-reaches-argentina-open-semifinals\/16\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T03:39:31","slug":"top-seed-carlos-alcaraz-reaches-argentina-open-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-seed-carlos-alcaraz-reaches-argentina-open-semifinals\/16\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seed Carlos Alcaraz reaches Argentina Open semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina &#8212; Top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> advanced to the Argentina Open semifinals after beating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Andrea Vavassori<\/a> of Italy 7-6 (1), 6-1 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, the No. 2-ranked player in the world, struggled with Vavassori&#8217;s energy in the first set, but cruised to victory in the second on the outdoor clay courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wants to be No. 1 or No. 2, but this is not a sea of roses,&#8221; Alcaraz said. &#8220;Everyone is working hard to be better than you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, 20, will face third-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nicolas Jarry<\/a> on Saturday. Jarry secured his place after home-crowd favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/3739\/tomas-martin-etcheverry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> retired in the third set due to an injury in his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Etcheverry won the first set 6-4 and lost the second 7-5 before he made the decision to stop playing.<\/p>\n<p>Two players from Argentina are in the other semifinal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Federico Coria<\/a> beat countryman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/3340\/sebastian-baez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sebastian Baez<\/a> 6-1, 6-4, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facundo Diaz Acosta<\/a> topped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dusan Lajovic<\/a> of Serbia 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39541489\/top-seed-carlos-alcaraz-reaches-argentina-open-semifinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina &mdash; Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the Argentina Open semifinals after beating Andrea Vavassori of Italy 7-6 (1), 6-1<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/top-seed-carlos-alcaraz-reaches-argentina-open-semifinals\/16\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[973,1132,266,725,1707,3741,985,808],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20466,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions\/20466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}