{"id":127790,"date":"2022-09-17T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tennis-alcaraz-loses-to-auger-aliassime-in-first-match-as-world-no-1"},"modified":"2022-09-17T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T04:35:09","slug":"tennis-alcaraz-loses-to-auger-aliassime-in-first-match-as-world-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tennis-alcaraz-loses-to-auger-aliassime-in-first-match-as-world-no-1","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Alcaraz loses to Auger-Aliassime in first match as world No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VALENCIA, Spain, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz crashed to defeat on his debut as world number one, losing 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2 to Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime in their Davis Cup Finals group-stage clash on Friday. The 19-year-old Spaniard, who became the youngest player to top the ATP rankings when he claimed the title at Flushing Meadows on Sunday, joined Sergi Bruguera&#8217;s squad on Tuesday and did not play in their opening 3-0 victory over Serbia. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t arrive in very good physical condition. Very, very tough. The court is very slow. I had just two days to adapt my game to this court. It was really tough day,&#8221; Alcaraz said. Taking to the court after Roberto Bautista Agut beat Vasek Pospisil to put Spain up 1-0, Alcaraz sealed a tight opening set in the tiebreak, before his 13th-ranked opponent switched gears. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big win for me and for the team,&#8221; Auger-Aliassime said. &#8220;For me, because Carlos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALENCIA, Spain, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz crashed to defeat on his debut as world number one, losing 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2 to Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[58,71],"class_list":["post-127790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}