TOKYO: Carlos Alcaraz overcame an injury scare to progress to the second round of the ongoing Japan Open competition on Thursday, beating Sebastian Baez in a convincing manner.

Alcaraz produced dead silence from the audience when he went down to the court 20 minutes into the match, needing some help with his left ankle, but nonetheless continued to script an easy 6-4, 6-2 win, as per Olympics.com.

Following the match, he said, as quoted by Olympics.com, “I think I played a great level of tennis besides what happened at the beginning of the match. I am just happy to get the win and happy that I was able to play until the end of the match.”

During the fifth game of the first set, with scores level 2-2, Alcaraz’s leg gave up as he charged forward from baseline and he fell over his back, cl

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