Both delighted the crowd with frenetic exchanges, signing a meeting full of spectacle. So much Carlos Alcaraz What Cameron Norrie they forgot regarding the pressure and gave free rein to the rest. Carlos ended up beating Norrie 6-4, 6-3 in just 1 hour and 40 minutes in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells 2022 to face Rafael Nadal in the semifinals.
The game started strong with both players showing their intentions from the first points. If Norrie started the duel with a return winner, Alcaraz responded in the next exchange with a right hand winner at 165 km/h. The British pressed the rest during the first game of the Spanish to get ahead on the scoreboard. With patience, Carlos had to work on his service points so as not to be left behind, once morest Norrie who attacked aggressively, getting on court when he had the slightest chance. Alcaraz controlled the anxiety that led him to make certain unforced errors to debut in the light.
The Spaniard recovered the distance in a game where he seemed to be the experienced one, closing points at the net with great drop shots. Even so, Alcaraz was besieged once more by Norrie, who made it 4-3. The one from Murcia faced balls of break in the 4 games in which he served. With a iron defense in the network following a drop, Carlos returned to put the equality in the set. After getting through his first game without points break once morest, Alcaraz broke the rest to put the first quarter on his side.
After breaking the Spaniard’s serve to make it 2-1 in the second set, Norrie needed the physio’s assistance. After the brief break, the Spaniard added a game to the remainder to make it 2-2 on the scoreboard. From one side of the court to the other, a daring Alcaraz broke his rival’s serve to get one game away from the semis.
From less to more
Carlos closed the game once morest a Cameron Norrie who had nothing left to try. The Briton was left without strategies in the face of the wall that the Spaniard put up, which clearly evolved in the match, growing on the track. It seems that the future of Spanish tennis is more present than ever.