{"id":57576,"date":"2026-03-16T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jannik-sinner-beats-daniil-medvedev-for-1st-indian-wells-title\/16\/03\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:35:35","slug":"jannik-sinner-beats-daniil-medvedev-for-1st-indian-wells-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jannik-sinner-beats-daniil-medvedev-for-1st-indian-wells-title\/16\/03\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner beats Daniil Medvedev for 1st Indian Wells title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"431a1bce-57de-2a02-8022-9f32b0f60efb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> beat <a data-player-guid=\"469710ae-79d9-770e-e3b7-d71e5148642c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in the Indian Wells final 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4) on Sunday, winning seven straight points to rally from a 4-0 deficit in the second-set tiebreak and claim the title without dropping a single set.<\/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\/48217347\/aryna-sabalenka-outlasts-elena-rybakina-indian-wells-title\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The No. 2-ranked Italian beat Medvedev for the ninth time in their past 10 matches to claim his first title at the California desert tournament. Medvedev handed top-seeded <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> his first loss of the year in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner congratulated fellow Italian Kimi Antonelli, who won Formula One&#8217;s Chinese Grand Prix earlier Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t anything to do with tennis, but it has been a special day for Italy,&#8221; Sinner said. &#8220;Because I&#8217;m a huge Formula One fan and having a very, very young Italian, Kimi, bringing Italy back home at the top, it&#8217;s amazing. So, thanks, Kimi, thanks Formula One, and see you next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/48218984\/jannik-sinner-beats-daniil-medvedev-win-first-indian-wells-title-dropping-set\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &mdash; Jannik Sinner beat Daniil Medvedev in the Indian Wells final 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4) on Sunday, winning seven<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jannik-sinner-beats-daniil-medvedev-for-1st-indian-wells-title\/16\/03\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57577,"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":[2159,107,974,3180,1244,975,1245,113,4739],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0316%2Fr1629032_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576"}],"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=57576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57578,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions\/57578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}