Carlos Alcaraz prolonged his unbeaten season and received revenge over Cameron Norrie on Thursday to achieve the semi-finals at Indian Wells for a fifth straight 12 months. The world primary from Spain emerged from a see-saw battle with Twenty ninth-ranked Norrie with a 6-3, 6-4 victory. He will meet Russian Daniil Medvedev, who pushed his personal ATP profitable streak to eight matches with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over defending champion Jack Draper. World quantity two Jannik Sinner powered previous Learner Tien 6-1, 6-2 to line up a semi-final with fourth-ranked Alexander Zverev, a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Arthur Fils.
Alcaraz, 22, turned the youngest participant to finish a profession Grand Slam together with his victory within the Australian Open and adopted up with a title in Qatar.
He pushed his 2026 season file to 16-0 with the win over Norrie, who beat him within the Paris Masters in November.
“I struggle a lot with his style,” Alcaraz mentioned of heavy-hitting left-hander Norrie.
“Every time I play against him it’s always really tough for me.
“It’s slightly bit complicated together with his model, his topspin forehand, tremendous excessive. And then the backhand, actually flat and actually low.”
Trailing 4-2 in the opening set Norrie broke Alcaraz at love for 4-3. Alcaraz regrouped with another break and pocketed the set in 31 minutes.
Norrie broke again for a 2-0 lead in the second, but Alcaraz won the next four games.
Norrie saved two match points on his serve before Alcaraz efficiently served out the win.
“I’m discovering the proper shot,” Alcaraz said. “I performed properly. I performed strong. I performed aggressive after I may.”
Medvedev, coming off a title run in Dubai last month, seized control early against Draper, who had pulled off a gritty win over Novak Djokovic on Wednesday night.
“The first set was unreal, I could not miss a ball,” Medvedev said. “It was an unbelievable degree.
“Second set he tried to give everything he had, and he had an opportunity,” Medvedev famous, however the Russian saved the one break level he confronted with an ace.
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Medvedev then secured the lone break of the second to steer 6-5.
Draper was irked early in that eleventh sport when the chair umpire, queried by Medvedev, dominated the Briton had precipitated a hindrance with a raised arm gesture throughout a degree.
Medvedev mentioned he was distracted and the umpire informed him it may go to video overview, and subsequently awarded the Russian the purpose.
“Was I distracted big time? No,” Medvedev mentioned, however added he thought Draper’s gesture affected the standard of one among his forehands within the rally.
“Do I feel good about it? Not really,” he mentioned. “But I also don’t feel like I cheated or something.”
In the opposite half of the draw, Sinner stored his bid for a primary Indian Wells title on monitor with an easy victory over 20-year-old American Tien.
Sinner capitalized on a double fault from Tien for a break within the second sport and cruised from there, breaking Tien 4 occasions and saving all 4 break factors he confronted.
Tien, who saved a pair of match factors in his quarter-final win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, gave the impression to be hurting within the second set.
Sinner, who had bother himself within the steamy circumstances on the Australian Open, mentioned the new afternoon climate wasn’t a problem.
“Today I felt really good on court,” he mentioned. “It’s for sure an area where I’m trying to improve given the problems I’ve had in Australia.”
Zverev reached the Indian Wells semi-finals for the primary time with a equally snug victory over France’s Fils.
Zverev turned simply the fifth participant to achieve the semi-finals of all 9 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments.
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