{"id":48900,"date":"2025-05-19T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48900"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:09:47","slug":"alcaraz-is-clear-favorite-for-french-open-but-sinner-is-building-back-to-top-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/alcaraz-is-clear-favorite-for-french-open-but-sinner-is-building-back-to-top-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Is Clear Favorite for French Open, but Sinner Is Building Back to Top Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz is the clear favorite for the French Open. Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is back from his doping ban, though, and building himself back up to full strength day by day.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the verdicts after Alcaraz beat Sinner to win the Italian Open a week before Roland Garros starts on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz\u2019s title in Rome boosted his record on clay this season to 15-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn clay right now, you\u2019re the best player,\u201d Sinner told Alcaraz during the trophy ceremony after the Spaniard&#8217;s 7-6 (5), 6-1 win Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner held two set points during the first set against Alcaraz in his first tournament following his three-month suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level he has played in this tournament is insane after three months without playing,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be better and better. &#8230; He\u2019s going to be a really dangerous player in Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz is the clear favorite for the French Open. Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is back from his doping ban, though, and building himself back up to full strength day by day. Those were the verdicts after Alcaraz beat Sinner to win the Italian Open a week before Roland Garros starts on Sunday. Alcaraz\u2019s title in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48900","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\/48900","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=48900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48903,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48900\/revisions\/48903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}