{"id":1930854,"date":"2026-09-02T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930854"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:44:04","slug":"top-seeded-alexander-zverev-rallies-just-in-time-to-avoid-a-first-round-exit-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930854","title":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Alexander Zverev rallies just in time to avoid a first-round exit at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alexander Zverev rallied just in time to avoid becoming the first men&#8217;s No. 1 seed to lose in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament since 2003, edging Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4 in a U.S. Open match that ended Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/e86ac-top-seeded-alexander-zverev-rallies-just-in-time-to-avoid-a-first-round-exit-at-the-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alexander Zverev rallied just in time to avoid becoming the first men&#8217;s No. 1 seed to lose in the first round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1930855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1930854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930856,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930854\/revisions\/1930856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}