{"id":27093,"date":"2025-02-19T02:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=27093"},"modified":"2025-02-19T02:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:58:54","slug":"deadspin-atp-roundup-carlos-alcaraz-posts-hard-fought-win-at-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=27093","title":{"rendered":"ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz posts hard-fought win at Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/25239545.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/25239545.jpg\" alt=\"Deadspin | ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz posts hard-fought win at Doha\" \/>Jan 22, 2025; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Carlos Alcaraz of Spain gestures during his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the quarterfinals of the men&#8217;s singles at the 2025 Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Mandatory Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz found himself trailing in the second set to Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic, but battled back for a 6-4, 6-4 win Monday in the opening round at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">With Cilic &#8212; the former World No. 3 &#8212; on the verge of taking a 5-3 lead in the second set, Alcaraz rebounded while serving at 0-40 down and notched 14 of the next 19 points to seal the victory. Alcaraz, who saved five of six break points, will face World No. 7 Novak Djokovic of Croatia if both reach the semifinals.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">Czech Jiri Lehecka upset No. 7 seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-4, taking 35 of 40 first-serve points (88 percent) and saving both break points he faced. Other first-round winners included No. 8 seed Jack Draper of Great Britain, Fabian Marozsan of Hungary and Australia&#8217;s Christopher O&#8217;Connell.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">Rio Open<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-5\">Taiwanese qualifier Chun-Hsin Tseng stunned third-seeded Alejandro Tabilo of Chile 6-2, 7-5 in the first round at Rio de Janeiro.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">Tseng, ranked 125th in the world, finished with a 6-0 edge in aces en route to the 1-hour, 36-minute victory.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">Another Chilean, sixth-seeded Nicolas Jarry, rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentine qualifier Juan Manuel Cerundolo.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">The home fans had four Brazilian players to cheer on, but only one advanced, as wild card Thiago Monteiro nipped Argentina&#8217;s Facundo Diaz Acosta 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3). Kazakhstan&#8217;s Alexander Shevchenko defeated wild card Felipe Meligeni Alves 6-4, 6-2; Argentina&#8217;s Francisco Comesana eliminated Gustavo Heide 7-6 (2), 6-7 (7), 6-3; and Spain&#8217;s Jaume Munar topped Thiago Seyboth Wild 6-4, 3-6, 6-0.<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">&#8211;Field Level Media<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadspin | ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz posts hard-fought win at Doha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz posts hard-fought win at Doha - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=27093\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz posts hard-fought win at Doha - 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