{"id":14898,"date":"2025-11-10T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/alcaraz-opens-atps-season-ending-championships-in-ideal-fashion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:19","slug":"alcaraz-opens-atps-season-ending-championships-in-ideal-fashion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/alcaraz-opens-atps-season-ending-championships-in-ideal-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz opens ATP&#8217;s season-ending championships in ideal fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Alcaraz began in good form\u00a0 before easing to a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win against the seventh seed, Alex de Minaur, in Turin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Alcaraz, the top seed, is attempting to win the ATP Finals for the first time and hold off Jannik Sinner to finish the season as the top-ranked player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Despite ceding significant ground to the Italian in recent weeks by losing to Cameron Norrie in his opening match at the Paris<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Masters, which Sinner won, Alcaraz still holds a clear advantage this week since the Italian is defending his title from last year. The Spaniard must win all three of his round-robin group stage matches or reach the final in order to secure the top ranking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14899,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14898","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Carlos Alcaraz opened the ATP's season-ending championships, and the battle for the year-end number one ranking, in ideal fashion as he confidently navigated a turbulent opening set","published_date":"2025-11-10 00:00:00","news_description":"Carlos Alcaraz opened the ATP's season-ending championships, and the battle for the year-end number one ranking, in ideal fashion as he confidently navigated a turbulent opening set","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19361,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14898\/revisions\/19361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}