MADRID, 16 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz has been eliminated this Sunday-in dawn in Spain-in the semifinals of the Indian Wells Tournament (California, United States), first 1000 masters of the season and that is played on the hard track outdoors, due to its defeat by 6-1, 0-6 and 6-4 before the British Jack Draper in an hour and 45 minutes.
In Stadium No. 1 of Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Draper began very solid to the serve and quite the opposite Alcaraz, which granted ‘break’ ball with a double foul in the second game. His opponent sealed it immediately and put himself with an advantage that quickly consolidated (3-0).
Although El Palmar’s player won the next service blank, he never clung to a first brilliant set and that he gave in 23 minutes. With the support of his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero and the rest of the ‘staff’ from the stands, Alcaraz changed his mentality soon and noticed.
Proof of this was the initial game of the second set, where Alcaraz saved a break ball with an ‘ace’ and took confidence. That 0-1 was pointed out and went to bite in the subsequent game; Despite wasting a 0-40, he continued with more close blows and did consume a fourth breakage option.
In a Pispás, he consolidated his advantage, he made ‘break’ again and repeated consolidation (0-5). Draper was lost, as he exemplified with a bad left that gave Set’s ball to his adversary; The ‘Rosco’ did not arrive then, but the Palmareño took just to get it with a rest of two hands, having climbed the English ‘by grapes’ to the network.
30 minutes had lasted that second manga, giving way to a third in which the forces matched. At the beginning there was a comfortable game for each side, although that dynamic changed because of an intervention by Mohamed Lahyani decisive in the third game. With 15-15, the Murcian made a parallel left and that Draper returned, ‘a priori’, after double boat.
The Swedish chair judge said immediately, without being taken into account that Alcaraz’s posterior blow had left. But Draper requested the television review, which confirmed that there had been a single boat and not two; Not happy with that, so as not to have to repeat the point, English requested a new review because he understood continued action.
Lahyani looked at the play again and gave the right to Draper, also giving him 15-30. Then the Sutton was emboldened, he achieved a breakage ball and took advantage of it. For more Inri, English became 3-1 and Alcaraz suffered in his next service, seeing a 0-30 that he solved thanks to two too long remains of his opponent.
I wanted to keep alcaraz balls high, taking a slice with a nice two -handed parallel setback, which hilvanó with a powerful serve and that Draper played with the frame of his racket. A minimum failure for a tennis player who was planting the champion of this tournament for the last two years.
He ran almost everything and did not doubt the English with his rackets, putting the 4-2 on the scoring without shock and basshing to his rival in the seventh game. Two bad left of his caused two situations of 40-40; That tesiture was repeated later and that of El Palmar improved on the middle court, but from the fourth ‘deuce’ no longer got up.
The rupture had provided Draper a 5-2 scenario and service to get through the big door in the final of this BNP Paribas Open 2025. However, and perhaps by the nerves, he committed a double foul to look 0-30 and then Alcaraz guessed a cross shot on the net to place 15-40, a tanteo that the palmareño crystallized in the ‘break’ of 5-3.
For the ninth game, Alcaraz endured on the wire, including a deep parallel right that channeled that 5-4 in his favor. But his journey ended in the tenth game for the impetus of a Draper who already glimpses the ‘top 10’ of the ATP ranking, and having cited in the final with the Danish Holger Rune, executioner of the Russian Daniil Medvedev by 7-5 and 6-4.