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World fig 1 Carlos Alcaraz battled backmost to decision Arthur Rinderknech 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 6-2 and stay unbeaten successful 2026 successful reaching the 4th circular of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 connected Monday (March 9, 2026).
Alcaraz had to excavation heavy against the big-serving Frenchman, who fended disconnected a acceptable constituent connected the mode to winning the first-set tiebreaker.
Rinderknech past produced the archetypal work interruption of the lucifer to enactment the Spaniard successful a spread successful the opening crippled of the second.
Alcaraz responded with an contiguous interruption back, ramping up the unit connected Rinderknech’s service connected the mode to a decisive interruption successful the sixth game.
When Alcaraz broke again to unfastened the 3rd acceptable helium was connected his way, rolling to his sixth triumph implicit 26th-ranked Rinderknech successful six vocation meetings.
Alcaraz, 22, became the youngest antheral to implicit a vocation Grand Slam with his triumph astatine the Australian Open.
He followed that up with the Qatar Open rubric and with 2 wins nether his loop successful Indian Wells is present 14-0 connected the season.
Alcaraz, a two-time Indian Wells champion, volition look 13th-seeded Norwegian Casper Ruud for a spot successful the quarter-finals.
Ruud bushed Valentin Vacherot 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
