{"id":480463,"date":"2024-03-17T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480463"},"modified":"2024-03-17T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T01:07:29","slug":"alcaraz-beats-medvedev-in-straight-sets-to-win-2024-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alcaraz-beats-medvedev-in-straight-sets-to-win-2024-indian-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz beats Medvedev in straight sets to win 2024 Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, won against world number 4, Daniil Medvedev 4, 2-0 sets and won for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight year the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells as he also defeated the Russian at the final in 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlos Alcaraz\u2019 reaction after winning his 2nd Indian Wells title.<\/p>\n<p>He puts his arms in the air.<\/p>\n<p>He screams \u2018Vamos\u2019 into the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Chills. \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HeCH9Pn05K\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HeCH9Pn05K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1769498529846989103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Daniil started the match very well and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 3 games in the set with 1 break, but Alcaraz initially answered and tied 3-3 games after also winning 3 games in a row with 1 break. Both players didn\u2019t allow more breaks and the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set was decided after a tiebreak which the Spaniard won 7-5 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Alcaraz dominated and converted 2 breaks from 5 chances to triumph in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set 6-1 and to win the trophy in Indian Wells in straight sets. Carlos didn\u2019t allow Daniil any break chances in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set.<\/p>\n<p>To lift the trophy, Alcaraz had a comeback victory on Friday against Jannik Sinner as the Spaniard lost the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-1 but, after that, won the next 2 sets and advanced to the final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Carlos Alcaraz<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Novak Djokovic<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Roger Federer<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Lleyton Hewitt<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Michael Chang<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Pete Sampras<\/p>\n<p>The only men to successfully defend a title in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TennisParadise?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TennisParadise<\/a> \ud83c\udfbe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gf6gJKcxeS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Gf6gJKcxeS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNP Paribas Open (@BNPPARIBASOPEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNPPARIBASOPEN\/status\/1769499664934715780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz, world number 2, won against world number 4, Daniil Medvedev 4, 2-0 sets and won for a 2nd straight year the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480464,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,17539,17698,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17857,18112,18071,2951],"acf":{"announce":"Carlos defended his title as he also won the tournament in 2023.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480479,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480463\/revisions\/480479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480463"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480463"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}