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More from Tennis News<\/p>\nDefending champion Carlos Alcaraz continued his comeback from a long wrist injury layoff with a four\u2011set win over Portugal\u2019s Jaime Faria, 4\u20116, 6\u20110, 6\u20113, 6\u20112, to reach the third round of the US Open. <\/p>\n
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz’s comeback from a long wrist injury layoff gathered momentum on Wednesday as he came from behind to outclass Portugal’s Jaime Faria 4-6 6-0 6-3 6-2 and reach the third round of the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard returned to action after nearly five months out with a straightforward first-round victory over Roman Safiullin on Monday, but found himself on the back foot in his first evening session match this year.<\/p>\n
World number 72 Faria broke for a 4-3 lead and relied on his powerful serve to comfortably claim the first set, before piling the pressure on an error-prone Alcaraz at the beginning of the second to earn two more opportunities to break.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough match. I was feeling great, but I was in a rush, and I didn’t take time, and it cost me a break (in the first set),” Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n
“Against someone like Jaime, who serves at 140-141 miles per hour every time, you have to try and be focused and calm. I told myself good things are going to happen. I just had to stay there all the time.”<\/p>\n
Alcaraz dialled up the intensity at just the right time, however, delighting the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd with a dazzling drop shot-lob combination before quickly drawing level with Faria at one set apiece.<\/p>\n
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“The day session compared to the night session here is a totally different game,” Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n
“The conditions here are different, and obviously the crowd is super electric here in the night session. I love playing in front of such a great atmosphere, such great people.<\/p>\n
“I could feel the difference.”<\/p>\n
The seven-time Grand Slam champion produced more spectacular shot-making from the back in the third set, wearing down the Portuguese as he tightened his grip on the contest.<\/p>\n
With Faria struggling on serve, the 23-year-old Alcaraz motored through the fourth set for a victory that earned him a meeting with China’s Wu Yibing in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz continued his comeback from a long wrist injury layoff with a four\u2011set win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15876,375,25105,271,24623,4267,28,304,463,3829,24408,7157],"class_list":["post-65048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carlos-alcaraz","tag-2026-us-open","tag-alcaraz","tag-alcaraz-vs-faria","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-faria","tag-jaime-faria","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-2026","tag-us-open-grand-slam","tag-wu-yibing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}