Carlos Alcaraz resumed his triumphal march and good luck to those who want to stop him. In Indian Wells, there was no one to thwart the 19-year-old Spaniard’s path to the title. In the final, Daniil Medvedev had no more solutions than the others, beaten in straight sets in a one-sided match. Thanks to this third title in Masters 1000, following Miami and Madrid last year, Alcaraz will once once more become world No. 1 in place of Novak Djokovic. He had previously held the spot on the heels of his US Open title.
The Russian, however, arrived with a confidence cursor placed very high thanks to his series of 19 straight wins. But it did not weigh heavily once morest a Spaniard totally recovered following his physical glitches. Too imprecise at the start of the game, Medvedev took the pressure from the start in this match, very quickly giving up his face-off between a double fault and a winning backhand from his opponent.
Twelve straight points for Alcaraz
Placed very far on the court in return as usual, he saw Alcaraz take full advantage of this position and drop drop shots behind his services. As the Spaniard hit them all very well, Medvedev found himself helpless on each of these sequences. Even on the long rallies, he was not so dominating as Juan Carlos Ferrero’s protege feared these exchanges before the meeting. The slow and windy conditions did not help the Russian.
The first set pocketed, Alcaraz continued his destruction operation by taking twice the service of Medvedev who conceded a series of twelve points in a row. Unstoppable and confident, the Spaniard chained winning blows, sparing little to his rival and offering his side no gift on which his opponent might have relied.
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Alcaraz did not concede a single break point in this final.
Returning to the circuit a little over a month ago following an amputated start to the season due to an injury, he has already regained all his dispositions and has just won two titles between Buenos Aires and Indian Wells. His other outing? A final in Rio where his painful thigh reminded him. A rather frightening table for the competition which now awaits him in Miami where he is the defending champion. It was there that he had completely changed in dimension.
