{"id":151855,"date":"2025-06-02T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151855\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:25:09","slug":"french-open-live-carlos-alcaraz-offends-rival-as-novak-djokovic-runs-into-trouble-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151855\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open LIVE: Carlos Alcaraz &#8216;offends&#8217; rival as Novak Djokovic runs into trouble | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/carlos-alcaraz\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has admitted he would have felt \u2018guilty\u2019 if he did not give Ben Shelton a point during their quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was awarded a point after he seemed to hit a remarkable volley early in the second set, but he informed the umpiire that he wasn\u2019t actually holding his racket when it touched the ball and therefore he shouldn\u2019t have been awarded the point.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about giving a point to his opponent, Alcaraz said: \u201cI thought, \u2018OK, I could not say anything.\u2019 But I would have felt guilty if I didn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just about if I know that I didn\u2019t (do), or I did, a wrong thing&#8230; I have to say. I have to be honest with myself. I have to be honest with Ben, with everyone&#8230; It\u2019s just about the respect we have against each other, and I think that sports, in general, should be like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has admitted he would have felt \u2018guilty\u2019 if he did not give Ben Shelton a point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[19369,6359,5066,5005,4295,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cameron-norrie","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-french-open","11":"tag-jack-draper","12":"tag-novak-djokovic","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114613290576851602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}