{"id":23944,"date":"2024-03-13T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-cruises-into-quarterfinals-at-indian-wells\/13\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:02:01","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-cruises-into-quarterfinals-at-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-cruises-into-quarterfinals-at-indian-wells\/13\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz cruises into quarterfinals at Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &#8212; Second-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> avenged a previous loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fabian Marozsan<\/a>, winning 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open as the top remaining seed in the men&#8217;s draw.<\/p>\n<p>A day after &#8220;lucky loser&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=7598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luca Nardi<\/a> stunned No. 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the third round at Indian Wells, Alcaraz advanced easily over the Hungarian who ousted him from the Italian Open in May. Marozsan was a qualifier and the No. 135 player in the world when he upset Alcaraz &#8212; then on the verge of taking the top spot in the rankings &#8212; 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the third round in Rome.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39712518\/djokovic-stunned-lucky-loser-nardi-indian-wells\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I was nervous before the match. I&#8217;m not going to lie,&#8221; Alcaraz said. &#8220;Playing against someone that beat you. &#8230; Today I knew what I had to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, the defending champion at Indian Wells, dropped the first set in his opening match this year but has lost just 12 games in the other six sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> wasn&#8217;t so lucky, losing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, Ukrainian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marta Kostyuk<\/a> beat Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/a> 6-4, 6-1, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anastasia Potapova<\/a> defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a> 7-5, 0-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39717824\/carlos-alcaraz-cruises-quarterfinals-indian-wells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &mdash; Second-ranked Carlos Alcaraz avenged a previous loss to Fabian Marozsan, winning 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/carlos-alcaraz-cruises-into-quarterfinals-at-indian-wells\/13\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[973,266,2121,3180,200,4739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23946,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions\/23946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}