{"id":24131,"date":"2025-09-28T08:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/carlos-alcaraz-cleans-open-cicadas-of-brandon-nakashima-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:36:14","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-cleans-open-cicadas-of-brandon-nakashima-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/carlos-alcaraz-cleans-open-cicadas-of-brandon-nakashima-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz cleans open cicadas of Brandon Nakashima, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz reached the Open semi-finals on Sunday, giving him a comfortable victory over Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n<p>As they dispelled concerns over an ankle injury on Thursday, Alcaraz took full control with a 6-2, 6-4 victory and advanced to the semi-finals of nine consecutive tour-level events.<\/p>\n<p>Nakajima couldn&#8217;t handle Alcaraz&#8217;s serve when he hit 25 winners past the Americans. Alcaraz may have finished his victory before, but he failed to take advantage of the three match points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always say it&#8217;s difficult to close games,&#8221; Alkaraz said. &#8220;It&#8217;s even tougher when there&#8217;s match points, like when I came back. I lost that game so I thought it was really difficult, but I just kept the focus in the last game and tried to play some great points. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve played a final game like this so I&#8217;m really happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz next takes on Casper Ruud, who took less than an hour to beat the Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Second Seed Taylor Fritz set the semi-finals against fellow American Jenson Brooksby, passing Sebastian Corda 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz reached the Open semi-finals on Sunday, giving him a comfortable victory over Brandon Nakashima. As they dispelled concerns over an ankle injury on Thursday, Alcaraz took full control with a 6-2, 6-4 victory and advanced to the semi-finals of nine consecutive tour-level events. Nakajima couldn&#8217;t handle Alcaraz&#8217;s serve when he hit 25 winners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,3902,25,5319,6423,6400,6424,32,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-24131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-brandon","10":"tag-carlos","11":"tag-cicadas","12":"tag-cleans","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-nakashima","15":"tag-open","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}