{"id":250547,"date":"2025-07-09T10:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250547\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:51:09","slug":"wimbledon-live-jannik-sinner-at-risk-of-withdrawal-as-novak-djokovic-struggles-to-breathe-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250547\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon LIVE: Jannik Sinner at risk of withdrawal as Novak Djokovic struggles to breathe | 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 that he struggled with his serve in his first few Wimbledon matches.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champion was given a tough time in matches against Fabio Fognini, Jan-Lennard Struff and Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n<p>However, he blitzed past Cameron Norrie in straight sets in the quarter-final yesterday &#8211; as he had done against world No. 733 Oliver Tarvet in round two.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz has now revealed why he has improved.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard said after beating Norrie: \u201cI struggled a little bit in the first rounds of the tournament trying to improve a little bit. I don\u2019t know if it was the throw of the ball or just the rhythm but I just got it on Rublev\u2019s match and started to play really good. The percentage went higher. The winning point on the first serve was higher as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I started to throw the ball on the serve much better and I think that helped a lot, coming on the serve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I got the good rhythm and throw of the ball I started to serve much better and I think today I tried to follow the same way that I served in Rublev\u2019s match so hopefully keep it going and keep feeling the good way again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has admitted that he struggled with his serve in his first few Wimbledon matches. The reigning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6359,23810,4718,18388,4295,96668,79,1068,16,15,5068,92777],"class_list":{"0":"post-250547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-iga-swiatek","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-mirra-andreeva","12":"tag-novak-djokovic","13":"tag-quarter-finals","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wimbledon","19":"tag-wimbledon-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822898515469953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250547","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=250547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}