Alcaraz stopped Fran Cerú and was two tricampeonato games in Indian Wells

The wind wanted to steal the prominence of the night in the Californian desert, but Carlos Alcaraz (3rd) and Francisco Cerúando (26 °) They avoided it, playing an entertaining quarterfinal meeting in the Indian Wells Masters 1000which ended with victory for Spanish 6-3 and 7-6 (4).

After an irregular beginning of both, little by little the Murcian was erected as the best of the two, saving several risk situations. The thing is The one born in Buenos Aires 26 years ago, had six occasions to take the rival servebut failed to specify them, something that did Alcaraz Once, after having just two opportunities.

Different was the second manga, since Closed could finally fasten a Break, But it was not enough to twist the pulse, due to the rapid reaction of the Iberian, which sent the definition the Trebreak. And it was in the tiebreaker when the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero He imposed his hierarchy again to take the pass to the semifinals and be only two games of being tricampeón, after the titles achieved in 2023 and 2024, respectively

At the moment, Alcaraz has 20 victories throughout his career in Indian Wellsbeing 16 of them consecutively and is the second player to reach the two dozens of triumphs to a lesser number of games (22) in a 1000 Masters, only behind Rafael Nadal, who did it in 21 games in Monte-Carlo and Rome.

The next stop of the world’s number in this contest will be in front of Jack Draper (14th)who was responsible for eliminating the American Ben Shelton (12th)leaving the male box without the presence of local players.

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