Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz sweeps aside Fabian Marozsan as holder reaches last eight
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Carlos Alcaraz’s win over Fabian Marozsan was his 50th at an ATP Masters 1000 match
Carlos Alcaraz clinched a straight-set victory over Fabian Marozsan to succeed in the quarter-finals and proceed his title defence at Indian Wells.
The Spaniard wanted 75 minutes to wrap up a 6-3 6-3 win in opposition to the Hungarian.
World quantity two Alcaraz is bidding to turn into the primary participant to defend the title since Novak Djokovic in 2016.
He will face Alexander Zverev within the last eight after the German sixth seed recovered from a gradual begin to beat Australia’s Alex de Minaur 5-7 6-2 6-3.
After taking the primary set, 10th seed De Minaur broke serve within the first sport of the second set.
However, Zverev instantly broke again and didn’t lose serve for the remainder of the match, changing 5 of his seven break alternatives and saving eight of 11 break factors confronted.
“I don’t remember having a better match in wind than I did today,” Zverev stated.
“When you’re down a set and a break, you have to figure it out if you’re going to continue, or you’re going to be off the court in 20 minutes. I had to play differently from both sides, and I managed it well today.”
Also in California, Greek 11th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas fell to a shock 6-2 6-4 defeat by Jiri Lehecka.
The Czech 32nd seed gained his first ATP title in January by beating Britain’s Jack Draper within the last of the Adelaide International.
Lehecka will play Jannik Sinner within the quarter-finals after the Italian third seed beat American Ben Shelton 7-6 (7-4) 6-1.
Sinner has gained 18 successive matches stretching again to last season and is chasing a 3rd match victory of 2024 after lifting the Australian Open and Rotterdam Open titles.
Two-time main winner Alcaraz stated he was “nervous” earlier than his assembly with Marozsan, having misplaced to the world quantity 58 in straight units at last 12 months’s Italian Open.
“I was nervous before, I’m not going to lie. Playing against someone who beat you easily, I remembered I had no chances to win the game in Rome so it was difficult for me,” he stated.
“Today I knew what I had to do better than I did in Rome.”
Alcaraz broke twice within the opening set and claimed the decisive break within the sixth sport of the second to seal his place within the last eight for a 3rd consecutive 12 months at Indian Wells.
The 20-year-old added: “I did a few mistakes that I didn’t want to make so that’s what I want to be better. I want to serve better. It doesn’t mean today I served bad but I want to keep improving and putting good tennis on the court.”
