{"id":18427,"date":"2025-09-06T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18427"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:04:31","slug":"trump-at-us-open-final-great-for-tennis-says-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18427","title":{"rendered":"Trump at US Open final &#8216;great for tennis&#8217;, says Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz says that President Donald Trump&#8217;s presence at the men&#8217;s US Open final on Sunday will be &#8220;great for tennis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s planned attendance is the latest in a series of visits to major sporting events after his trip to the NFL&#8217;s Super Bowl in February and the FIFA Club World Cup final in July.<\/p>\n<p>The last sitting president to attend the tennis Grand Slam in New York &#8212; and the first in history to come to the US Open &#8212; was Democrat Bill Clinton, who watched the women&#8217;s final in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8230; it is a privilege for the tournaments having the president from every country just to support the tournament, to support tennis, and to support the match,&#8221; Alcaraz said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, playing in front of him&#8230; I will try not to think about it. I don&#8217;t want myself to be nervous because of it, but I think, you know, attending the tennis match, it&#8217;s great for tennis to have the president (at) the final.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five-time Grand Slam winner Alcaraz will play either reigning US Open champion Jannik Sinner or Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime in Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz says that President Donald Trump&#8217;s presence at the men&#8217;s US Open final on Sunday will be &#8220;great for tennis&#8221;. Trump&#8217;s planned attendance is the latest in a series of visits to major sporting events after his trip to the NFL&#8217;s Super Bowl in February and the FIFA Club World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}