{"id":69607,"date":"2026-03-21T00:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/carlos-alcaraz-cuts-through-the-noise-to-ease-past-joao-fonseca-at-miami-open\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:56:38","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-cuts-through-the-noise-to-ease-past-joao-fonseca-at-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/carlos-alcaraz-cuts-through-the-noise-to-ease-past-joao-fonseca-at-miami-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz cuts through the noise to ease past Joao Fonseca at Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>World No 1 beats Brazilian 6-4, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spaniard says teenager \u2018reminds me a lot [of me] when I was his age\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Carlos Alcaraz worked through his service motion midway through his opening match at the Miami Open, a scream pierced the night-time air. One of the 16,000 spectators breathlessly cheering Alcaraz\u2019s demise had attempted to distract the Spaniard just before he struck the ball.<\/p>\n<p>In a spectacular atmosphere unlike many other Masters 1000 second round matches in recent memory, Alcaraz maturely navigated both a passionate, adversarial crowd and a prodigious teenage opponent in Joao Fonseca to reach the third round of the Miami Open with a 6-4, 6-4 win.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/tennis-carlos-alcaraz-joao-fonseca-miami-open-second-round\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No 1 beats Brazilian 6-4, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium Spaniard says teenager \u2018reminds me a lot [of me] when I was his age\u2019 As Carlos Alcaraz worked through his service motion midway through his opening match at the Miami Open, a scream pierced the night-time air. One of the 16,000 spectators breathlessly &#8230; <a title=\"Carlos Alcaraz cuts through the noise to ease past Joao Fonseca at Miami Open\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/carlos-alcaraz-cuts-through-the-noise-to-ease-past-joao-fonseca-at-miami-open\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Carlos Alcaraz cuts through the noise to ease past Joao Fonseca at Miami Open\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}