1, rising to the top spot after winning his first Grand Slam title at the US Open last year and holding it until after this year’s Australian Open, which he missed due to a leg injury-Novak Djokovic reclaimed No. The Spanish teenager has already spent 20 career weeks at No. If Alcaraz goes on to win his first Indian Wells title, there’s going to be even more to celebrate-he would reclaim the No.

The last two times he made it to the final four at a Masters 1000 event he went on to capture the title, at Miami and Madrid last year. He reached his first one at Indian Wells last year, falling to Rafael Nadal, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, in a three-hour-plus epic. He finished with 26 winners to 16 unforced errors-including more than three times as many winners as errors off his forehand, 16 to 5.Īlcaraz is now through to the fourth Masters 1000 semifinal of his career. The two then held from there until Alcaraz had the set in his pocket.Īlcaraz broke again in the very first game of the second set, only to get broken right back-but the Spanish teenager eventually got his third and final break of the match for 5-4 and served it out, ripping one last forehand winner into the corner to seal the victory. “I probably played one of my best matches this season.”Īfter four straight holds to start the match, Alcaraz finally broke through on the Auger-Aliassime serve, converting his sixth break point of the night-and his 17th career break point against the Canadian-with a big forehand passing shot for a 3-2 lead. “I knew that I was going to have my chances, so just try to take them.

“The goal of mine today was to stay there,” Alcaraz said. Felix Auger-Aliassime had won all three of their previous meetings-he had never even been broken in any of them, holding all 31 of his service games (and saving all 11 break points he faced).īut Carlos Alcaraz got his revenge at Indian Wells on Thursday night, breaking the Canadian three times to win, 6-4, 6-4, and move through to his second straight semifinal in the desert.

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