{"id":45117,"date":"2025-03-22T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45117"},"modified":"2025-03-22T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:29:53","slug":"goffin-stuns-alcaraz-djokovic-makes-winning-miami-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/goffin-stuns-alcaraz-djokovic-makes-winning-miami-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Goffin Stuns Alcaraz, Djokovic Makes Winning Miami Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz fell 5-7 6-4 6-3 to Belgian David Goffin in the Miami Open second round on Friday while Novak Djokovic tied Rafa Nadal for most ATP Masters 1000 match wins and Russia&#8217;s Mirra Andreeva took another step toward a &#8220;Sunshine Double&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Goffin led the second seed by a break in each of the three sets and secured the victory on his second match point when a sliding Alcaraz was unable to retrieve a forehand the Belgian ripped into the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Goffin is Brandon Nakashima, a 6-4 4-6 6-3 winner over Roberto Carballes Baena.<\/p>\n<p>Six-times champion Djokovic made his long-awaited Miami Open return and defeated Australian Rinky Hijikata 6-0 7-6(1) to reach the third round.<\/p>\n<p>It marked Djokovic&#8217;s first Miami appearance since 2019 and the Serbian fourth seed&#8217;s victory was his 410th ATP Masters 1000 match win, tying him with Rafa Nadal atop the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to make a statement to myself and to others, as well, that I&#8217;m still able to play on a high level,&#8221; Djokovic told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz fell 5-7 6-4 6-3 to Belgian David Goffin in the Miami Open second round on Friday while Novak Djokovic tied Rafa Nadal for most ATP Masters 1000 match wins and Russia&#8217;s Mirra Andreeva took another step toward a &#8220;Sunshine Double&#8221;. Goffin led the second seed by a break in each of the three &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45118,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45117\/revisions\/45118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}