INDIAN WELLS, March 17 — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz edged Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday to book a semi-final meeting with Jannik Sinner at the WTA and ATP Masters...
INDIAN WELLS, March 17 — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz edged Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday to book a semi-final meeting with Jannik Sinner at the WTA and ATP Masters 1000 at Indian Wells.
That five-set battle lasted five hours and 15 minutes, its 2:50am finish the latest in US Open history. Alcaraz would go on to lift the trophy and become the youngest world number one in the history of the ATP rankings.Alcaraz has slipped behind Novak Djokovic in the rankings, but after injury delayed his 2023 season start to February the 19-year-old Spaniard has won one title at Buenos Aires and reached the final at Rio de Janeiro.
This time, Alcaraz was ready for him, saying his prior defeats to Auger-Aliassime had taught him to “stay there.” “In Basel I remember I give up a little bit. Today the goal of mine was to stay there. I knew that I was going to have my chances, tried to take it.”Alcaraz saved the first break point he faced as he served out the first set, but after he broke to open the second Auger-Aliassime — who saved six match points in a fourth-round win over Tommy Paul — promptly broke back to set the tone for a tense back and forth battle.
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