{"id":5702,"date":"2025-05-30T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/carlos-alcaraz-will-work-in-the-fourth-round-of-the-french-open-ben-sheltonnext\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:30:31","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-will-work-in-the-fourth-round-of-the-french-open-ben-sheltonnext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/carlos-alcaraz-will-work-in-the-fourth-round-of-the-french-open-ben-sheltonnext\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz will work in the fourth round of the French Open. Ben Sheltonnext"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PARIS &#8211; Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round of the French Open after working past Damir Zumur 6-1, 6-3, 4-6 and 6-4 in Friday night sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The second-seeded Spaniard had never played Dzumhur, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never passed the third round in a major tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I struggled a lot today,&#8221; Alkaraz said. He&#8217;s dropped two sets so far. &#8220;The first two sets were under control and then he started playing deeper and more aggressively. That was really difficult for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dzumhur was treated on his right leg Friday during a fall in the second round and injured his left knee and was switched 3-2 down on the third set. He then lay on the ground, and the trainer worked on both feet for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Dzumhur then cheered once more when he won the third set, despite his unbalancedness, and when he defeated Alcaraz in the opening game of the fourth set.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed an unlikely turnaround was happening as Alcaraz clumsyly made an unforced error. However, the four-time Grand Slam champions helped the match back in the sixth and eighth games.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the elastic Dzumhur, whose face turned red with effort and sweat, sparkling faces, broke to drag the suspense a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz finally scored the victory in his second match point, facing No. 13 Ben Shelton in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0530%2Fr1500539_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0530%2Fr1500539_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0530%2Fr1500539_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0530%2Fr1500539_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Shelton will make his first appearance in the 16th round for Roland Garros after beating Matteo Gigante 6-3, 6-3 and 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>No. 12 Tommy Paul sets five sets of Karen Khachanoff on Friday, with 15th-ranked Francis Tiafoe defeating 23rd Sebastian Korda 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-4 in the US for the first time since 1995 to win three men in the French Open four rounds.<\/p>\n<p>If qualifier Ethan Quinn wins on Saturday, there will be four American men in Paris in the second week for the first time since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday of the other men&#8217;s third round, Italian No. 8 Lorenzo Musetti defeated Mariano Navone, while Denmark&#8217;s No. 10 Holger Rune defeated Frenchman Quentin Harris in five sets.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s No. 25 Alexei Popilin also made his way.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8211; Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round of the French Open after working past Damir Zumur 6-1, 6-3, 4-6 and 6-4 in Friday night sessions. The second-seeded Spaniard had never played Dzumhur, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never passed the third round in a major tournament. &#8220;I struggled a lot today,&#8221; Alkaraz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,719,25,776,151,32,1339,24,740],"class_list":{"0":"post-5702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-ben","10":"tag-carlos","11":"tag-fourth","12":"tag-french","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-sheltonnext","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","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=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}