He left very annoyed Jack Draper of the round of 16 Indian Wellsof course, and so did Carlos Alcaraz, who, first, does not like to win like this, due to the withdrawal of the rival; and also because he was feeling great on the track. The British, finishing the second set, began to serve very loosely, only giving the ball a bit of spin, to do something, with hardly any speed. It was intuited that he was wearing a kinesiology tape in the abdomen area and therein lay the problem. It is a complex area, and Alcaraz knows it because he suffered an injury there last year in Paris-Bercy that prevented him from playing in the Masters Cup. “Without” service it was absurd for him to play, he tried for a while, the physio came in, but he could only do more damage and he gave up when he lost 6-2 and 2-0.
When there could have been a game played, Carlos offered the vitalist version of the previous days. He literally eats the court, he is extremely activated and the ball obeys him. He finds winners with ease, his forehand flies as soon as he can hit it planted, he runs for all and the serve is working for him. He gave the Murcian time to put in a handful of winners and even save a 0-40 when he already had an advantage on the scoreboard. Because he started the duel with a break, impressive from the start, and he didn’t slow down.
He got into the quarterfinals, which he faces with optimism despite the fact that he will have a difficult opponent there no matter what. Your next opponent will be the winner of the Tommy Paul – Félix Auger-Also. Alcaraz has faced the American once, and lost. Against the Canadian there have been three confrontations, and he has not won any of them. Therefore, he has a tough challenge ahead.
Although for defiance, the one of Alexander Davidovichwho is also in the Indian Wells quarterfinals after beating the Chilean Cristian Garin (6-3 and 6-4) in a match in which they had a break from behind in the second set. The man from Malaga is starring in the best Masters 1,000 of his career on hard courts (in Monte Carlo, you have a quarterfinal and last year’s final, which he lost to Tsitsipas), but now one of the kings of this surface is being measured, the Russian Medvedev, who lived a very eventful match against Zverev (6-7 [5/7]7-6 [7/5] and 7-5) scared by a sprained ankle and angry because he has been complaining all week: “This is not a fast track. I know what a fast track is. I am a specialist ”, has been one of his protests. “This court is an embarrassment for the sport. It should be prohibited to play here ”, is another example. It seems to him that for a hard surface, the ball goes very slow. His meeting with Davidovich is today Wednesday March 15 at 11:00 p.m. in Spain, and can be seen on television through Movistar. Alcaraz will play his quarterfinal duel tomorrow, Thursday.