{"id":472286,"date":"2025-09-25T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=472286"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:19:32","slug":"injury-that-had-alcaraz-scared-in-tournament-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=472286","title":{"rendered":"Injury that had Alcaraz 'scared' in tournament debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

World number one Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> overcame a foot injury scare to beat Argentina's Sebastian Baez 6-4 6-2 on his Tokyo Open debut on Thursday (AEST), extending his sizzling run of form to reach the second round at the ATP 500 event.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old, who reclaimed top spot after winning the US Open earlier this month, called a medical timeout at 2-2 in the opening set after jarring his left foot while stretching for a return.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard returned with heavy strapping but played through discomfort, breaking Baez to edge 5-4 ahead before serving out the set.<\/p>\n

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After a brief rain suspension, Alcaraz eased past Baez without facing a break to close out the contest in an hour and a half. The victory improved his season record to 63-7, having won 48 of his last 51 matches.<\/p>\n

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"I was scared. I'm not going to lie. I felt my ankle and did not feel great. I'm just happy to be able to play after that," Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n

"I will try to be ready for the next match. It was unlucky. In the first five minutes I thought I wouldn't continue."<\/p>\n

Alcaraz, who is aiming to become only the sixth player to win the Tokyo title while ranked world number one, will next face Belgium's Zizou Bergs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World number one Carlos Alcaraz overcame a foot injury scare to beat Argentina's Sebastian Baez 6-4 6-2 on his Tokyo Open debut on Thursday (AEST), […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472289,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472286\/revisions\/472289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}