{"id":1931951,"date":"2026-09-09T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931951"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:37:18","slug":"alcaraz-says-i-leave-with-a-smile-after-epic-us-open-loss-to-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931951","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz says &#8216;I leave with a smile&#8217; after epic US Open loss to Shelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 At the end, when five riveting sets and one agonizingly tight tiebreak were over \u2014 and when the latest-finishing match in U.S. Open history had concluded \u2014 Ben Shelton was not the only player smiling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/8f8b3-alcaraz-says-i-leave-with-a-smile-after-epic-us-open-loss-to-shelton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 At the end, when five riveting sets and one agonizingly tight tiebreak were over \u2014 and when the latest-finishing match in U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1931952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1931951","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\/1931951","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=1931951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931953,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931951\/revisions\/1931953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}