{"id":498391,"date":"2026-01-23T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/alcaraz-comfortably-defeats-moutet-and-advances-to-the-round-of-16-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:24","slug":"alcaraz-comfortably-defeats-moutet-and-advances-to-the-round-of-16-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/tennis\/alcaraz-comfortably-defeats-moutet-and-advances-to-the-round-of-16-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz comfortably defeats Moutet and advances to the round of 16 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sports Writing (EFE).\u2013<\/strong> Spaniard <strong>Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong>, number one in the world ranking, showed his hierarchy this Friday by convincingly defeating Frenchman <strong>Corentin Moutet<\/strong> by <strong>6-2, 6-4 and 6-1<\/strong>, a result that allowed him to secure his place in the <strong>round of 16 of the Australian Open<\/strong>, a stage in which he will face American <strong>Tommy Paul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/tenis\/sinner-implacable-hacia-tercera-ronda-del-abierto-de-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:Sinner, relentless towards the third round of the Australian Open<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe Murcian, champion of <strong>six Grand Slam tournaments<\/strong>, dominated the match with clarity and only went through a moment of slight difficulty in the second set. In that set, Moutet \u2014currently number 32 in the world and a new rival for Alcaraz\u2014 managed to break his serve for the only time in the match, coming back from a 3-0 deficit to go up 4-3. However, the Spaniard reacted immediately, strung together three consecutive games and closed the set 6-4.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this triumph, Alcaraz continues his firm path in Melbourne in search of conquering the <strong>only Grand Slam missing from his record<\/strong>. In the next round he will face <strong>Tommy Paul<\/strong>, who advanced after the retirement of the Spaniard <strong>Alejandro Davidovich<\/strong>, affected by physical discomfort when the American was dominating the scoreboard 6-1 and 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Davidovich retires due to injury<\/h3>\n\n\nDavidovich was forced to abandon his third-round match due to an ailment in his <strong>left thigh<\/strong>, when barely 55 minutes of play had been played and the match was clearly tilted in Paul&#8217;s favor.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Writing (EFE).\u2013 Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, number one in the world ranking, showed his hierarchy this Friday by convincingly defeating Frenchman Corentin Moutet by 6-2, 6-4 and 6-1, a result that allowed him to secure his place in the round of 16 of the Australian Open, a stage in which he will face American Tommy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[37570],"tags":[43135,611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-498391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alca","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25Ez","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Tennis"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}