{"id":70011,"date":"2024-03-11T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sinner-alcaraz-demolish-indian-wells-opponents-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:43:06","slug":"sinner-alcaraz-demolish-indian-wells-opponents-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sinner-alcaraz-demolish-indian-wells-opponents-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner, Alcaraz demolish Indian Wells opponents | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reigning Grand Slam champions Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> turned in dominating performances on Sunday to roll into the fourth round of the ATP-WTA Indian Wells Masters.<\/p>\n

The two hottest young racquets in the sport showed no mercy in quick-fire victories, with Australian Open champion Sinner overwhelming Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

“Almost perfect” Alcaraz, the reigning Wimbledon champion, stepped up his Indian Wells title defense with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n

The world number two Spaniard allowed his Canadian opponent no room to move, reaching the fourth round with his eighth match win in a row at the event. A pair of women’s veterans showed new life in maternity comebacks.<\/p>\n

“It was almost the perfect match for me,” said Alcaraz, who broke Auger-Aliassime’s serve four times. “I moved well, played aggressive and had less mistakes.”<\/p>\n

Sinner was equally ruthless as he attacked Struff, with the Italian winning his 17th match in succession dating to his country’s Davis Cup victory in November.<\/p>\n

Sinner fired 27 winners past Struff, whose style gave the third seed a target on court.<\/p>\n

“We prepared very well, I tried to learn his moves,” Sinner said. “I played well and served well under pressure.<\/p>\n

“Overall I can be really happy about today, I felt really good on the court.”<\/p>\n

Alcaraz won the last five games of the opening set and broke to start the second on his way to repeating his win over Auger-Aliassime from the 2023 quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The second seed finished off victory on his first match point as Auger-Aliassime hit the net with his 23rd unforced error.<\/p>\n

It was a welcome show of strength from Alcaraz, who hasn’t won a title since winning his second Grand Slam with a stunning triumph over Novak Djokovic at the All England Club last year.<\/p>\n

He exited the Australian Open in the quarter-finals then lost in the semi-finals at Buenos Aires last month before spraining his ankle and retiring from his opening match in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

“I played at a really high level of tennis, so much higher than the first round,” the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz may still be feeling the effects of the ankle, which has left him short of 2024 match play.<\/p>\n

“My confidence has gone down a little bit, I’ve been struggling during the practice every day,” he admitted. “I’m trying to keep my confidence as high as I can.”<\/p>\n

In other matches, fifth seed Andrey Rublev was knocked out 6-4, 6-4 by rising Czech Jiri Lehecka<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur, seeded 10th, dominated Dubai finalist Alexander Bublik 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>\n

The Australian now plays sixth seed Alexander Zverev, a 7-6 (9\/7), 6-3 winner over Tallon Griekspoor.<\/p>\n

Greek 11th-seed Stefanos Tsitsipas eliminated a home crowd favorite with his 6-3, 6-3 defeat of Frances Tiafoe, who reached the Californian quarters a year ago.<\/p>\n

In WTA play, Iga Swiatek claimed quick revenge for a January loss as she hammered Czech Linda Noskova 6-4, 6-0 to reach the fourth round.<\/p>\n

The Polish top seed was defeated by the 29th-ranked challenger in an Australian Open third-round upset.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, world number one Swiatek quickly recovered after going down an early break to the 19-year-old, levelling at 4-all and sweeping through the remainder of the third-round match.<\/p>\n

Swiatek will next face Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, who beat Madison Keys 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n

The Pole said she learned from her loss to Noskova in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“It was much smarter to think about how to just play against Linda rather than focusing on my mistakes,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was motivated to just play better and not make the same mistakes but to improve my game in some aspects.”<\/p>\n

Germany’s three-time Grand Slam winner Angelique Kerber earned a win as her comeback from last year’s maternity continued to gather steam.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old defeated Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n

She next faces former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, another comeback candidate after becoming a mother who advanced past Katie Volynets 6-2, 4-6, 6-0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INDIAN WELLS: Reigning Grand Slam champions Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz turned in dominating performances on Sunday to roll into the fourth round of the ATP-WTA Indian Wells Masters. The two hottest young racquets in the sport showed no mercy in quick-fire victories, with Australian Open champion Sinner overwhelming Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 6-4. “Almost perfect” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/alca1710159358-0\/alca1710159358-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t