Alcaraz surpasses a combative closing it to get into the semifinals

Carlos Alcaraz will play the semifinals of Indian Wells for the third consecutive year. The Argentine Francisco closing it He was a dignified but insufficient rival to counteract the sweet moment of play that the Murcian crosses, which is increasingly closely Federer and Djokovic They have achieved before in the 1,000 Californian masters, considered the ‘fifth large’ of the ATP circuit. The one of The palmar He took the match 6-1 and 7-6 (4) and arrives full confidence to the final stretch of a tournament where he feels at home.

Cerúndo, number 26 of the ranking and involved in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells for the first time in his career, he raised a demanding match for the champion of Roland Garrosespecially in the second set, forcing the tie break and leaving memorable moments of tennis at the time and 43 minutes that were on track.

Once they had crossed before and was on the grass of the tournament of Queens that always serves as a prelude to Wimbledon. Alcaraz won on two sleeves 6-1 and 7-5. On this occasion, however, the 26 -year -old Argentine was loaded with trust after defeating one of the most -shaped players of the circuit, Alex de Minaurand with six victories over seven in their previous clashes with the Top Ten of the circuit.

For the second consecutive day he had to deal with the Murcia with uncomfortable conditions on the track, with wind gusts and an unusual cold for Indian Wells, with the mountains of Santa Rosa Loaded of snow as a landscape background. Facing Dimitrov He did not alter his pulse at all, but the beginning sensations in front of Cerú were very different, uncomfortable, undecided and without the determination of other days to master the points during the first games.

The Buenos Aires knew how to take advantage of it. He achieved in two minutes what Dimitrov could not do throughout the game: three consecutive break balls. The Murcian lifted them all to avoid an early crisis, but did not walk fine, with a streak of united errors that had not been allowed throughout the tournament. He was forced to overcome break balls in his first three games at the service, far from the new superlative he had exhibited in the previous three rounds.

All that to the seventh game. It was then when Alcaraz He decided to give him a repeated script to the meeting. The indecision and cold was shook and started hitting from the bottom of the track as in previous days. Ceruing it, it went from possible threat to a more propitiatory victim of Spanish, erased from the set in minutes (6-3).

By the stands of the central track of the Indian WellsTennis Center He began planning the ethereal feeling that the crash was liquidated, but closing it brought another idea. He waited for his moment, without losing his face to the game, and finally, on the ninth breakup that he managed to force, he took control of the second manga (4-1), a fair prize for his determination and good game.

Little lasted the advantage, yes. Alcaraz, forced to overcome for the first time in the tournament, put one more march and took the next three games, leaving flashes of his enormous talent along the way.

In semifinals the British awaits Jack Draperwho has faced four times, with a 3-1 balance in favor. Rune Y Medvedev The other place will be played in the final, in which it seems that it could be a reissue of the previous two that took Alcaraz with authority.