{"id":373913,"date":"2025-08-26T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373913\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:13:11","slug":"u-s-open-2025-live-updates-day-2-latest-as-carlos-alcaraz-leads-opelka-venus-williams-thrills-despite-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373913\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open 2025 live updates: Day 2 latest as Carlos Alcaraz leads Opelka, Venus Williams thrills despite loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alcaraz *4-3 Opelka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When playing against all seven feet and 140mph of <strong>Reilly Opelka<\/strong>\u2019s serve, it\u2019s easy to assume that returning is the focus. But players tend to say different: they need to take care of their serves, and then expend their energy on returning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong>, who has joked about wanting to be a \u201cserve bot\u201d in recent times, is botting on Arthur Ashe Stadium. He\u2019s made 83 percent of his first serves and won the point on every single one. <\/p>\n<p>Opelka has made 58 percent of his first deliveries by comparison, and despite some second-serve aces that have whizzed past Alcaraz\u2019s ears, he finds himself down a break at 4-3 to Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>The haircut might be \u201cterrible,\u201d per <strong>Frances Tiafoe<\/strong> of the U.S., but the tennis has been irrepressible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alcaraz *4-3 Opelka When playing against all seven feet and 140mph of Reilly Opelka\u2019s serve, it\u2019s easy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-373913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115092888319021746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373913","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=373913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}