Alcaraz, Sinner coast into fourth spherical of BNP Paribas Open

Carlos Alcaraz misplaced the primary set of his opening match in Tennis Paradise in a tiebreaker in opposition to Matteo Arnaldi, solely to roar again and take the subsequent two units 6-0 and 6-1.

It’s protected to say that Alcaraz has loads of momentum from that bagel and breadstick.

The second-ranked Spaniard was good from begin to end in his second match, as her erased Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-2, 6-3 in a single hour and 17 minutes on Sunday afternoon. Alcaraz saved the one break level he confronted and broke Auger-Aliassime 4 instances.

“I put nearly each return in, enjoying the purpose,” the 20-year-old famous. “I felt that I’m higher than him from the baseline, placing some good factors on the court docket. I believe it went nicely. I performed aggressive with much less errors. I believe it was nearly an ideal match for me.

“I felt actually [good] on the court docket. Yeah, I performed at a very excessive stage of tennis–a lot greater than the primary spherical. Yeah, hopefully (I) hold climbing.”

Climbing is strictly what Jannik Sinner is doing nowadays. Hovering, actually.

Sinner improved his season file to 14-0 and prolonged his total match profitable streak to 17 with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday. The third-ranked Italian has not misplaced since falling to Novak Djokovic within the Nitto ATP Finals title match.

Sinner didn’t come near dropping in third-round motion within the desert. He fought off all three of the break factors he confronted whereas advancing in a single hour and 14 minutes.

“I really feel like for positive I’m enjoying with confidence in the mean time,” Sinner commented. “However within the different method, I’m very cautious–as a result of, you realize, the match can change very quick. If he breaks me (within the) second set (at) 4-3, going 4-all, then it begins once more from zero. So I’ve to watch out.”

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