{"id":1808485,"date":"2026-03-05T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808485"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:00:59","slug":"jannik-sinner-beats-carlos-alcaraz-former-british-no-1-makes-bold-indian-wells-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808485","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz &#8211; former British No 1 makes bold Indian Wells prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 former British No 1 makes bold Indian Wells prediction<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/kevin-palmer\" 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sm:-mx-5\">\n<figure class=\"aspect-h-9 aspect-w-16 relative\">\n                                        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1320\" height=\"742\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover object-center !my-0\" src=\"https:\/\/d2me2qg8dfiw8u.cloudfront.net\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sinner-Alcaraz-Rusedski-1320x742.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Greg Rusedski\">                <\/figure><figcaption class=\"flex items-center space-x-3 border-b border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz with Greg Rusedski inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has started 2026 in sparkling fashion and heads into the Indian Wells Masters as the man to beat, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes the tide may be about to turn in the favour of his biggest rival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Jannik Sinner\u2019s<\/a> stunning form over the last couple of years made his defeats against Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open and a loss against Jakub Mensic in Qatar somewhat surprising, yet any suggestion that the world No 2 was \u2018in crisis\u2019 have been banished by Rusedski.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the latest edition of his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZPMKUwUOgE&amp;t=2s\">Off Court with Greg Rusedski podcast,<\/a> the 1997 US Open finalists threw his support behind Sinner to win his first title of the season at Indian Wells as he backed him to beat Alcaraz in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go with Sinner to win Indian Wells just because of the fact that he hasn\u2019t won a title this year is something to prove, even though Carlos is the hottest player on the tour,\u201d said Rusedski.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the conditions are perfect for him. You know, the ball gets up high, it kicks, it flies through the desert air goes through the air.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-clear-number-one-boris-becker-jannik-sinner-warning\">Carlos Alcaraz gets Jannik Sinner warning as Boris Becker answers \u2018unbeatable\u2019 question<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/indian-wells-open-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-backed-final\">Indian Wells Open: \u2018We\u2019re going to see a Carlos Alcaraz-Jannik Sinner final\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen on the court, the ball on the surface is quite slow, so he\u2019s going to have enough time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem he has is that Carlos Alcaraz prefers these courts more so than he does. And that\u2019s the final everybody\u2019s expecting. Sinner vs Alcaraz, that\u2019s what we want to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlos hasn\u2019t lost a match this year. He\u2019s been absolutely brilliant. And Sinner wants to say, OK, don\u2019t forget about me. It\u2019s a little bit of a blip right now. I mean, these two guys have just think Sinner\u2019s gonna announce himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s gonna be back in the final here. I think we\u2019re gonna get the repeat of Alcaraz vs Sinner, whatever part it is now because they\u2019ve played so many times. It\u2019s gonna happen again in Indian Wells, even though there are other players to look out for, I\u2019m backing Sinner to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinner will face challenges at Indian Wells before he can think about a final against Alcaraz and according to former British No 1 Tim Henman, the tactics needed to beat the Italian are tough to execute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to play Sinner is very easy when you talk about it. Your serve aces and you hit winners,\u201d said Henman, speaking exclusively to Tennis365.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is easier said than done, of course, and the reason there is a gap between Alcaraz and Sinner is that their level is so consistently high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw at the Australian Open was the difference between Alcaraz and Sinner in their two matches against Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinner has been the best player on hard courts for the last couple of years and even when Djokovic was pushing him, he didn\u2019t change his game. He backed himself to win and he came up short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried to fight fire with fire and was just going for it. If anything, that played into Djokovic\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you look at the final against Alcaraz and when Djokovic wins the first set 6-2, you are thinking maybe this can happened and Grand Slam No 25 is coming for Djokovic, but Alcaraz did have the variation in his game to change his tactics and he turned the match around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started playing with more height on the ball, used his slice backhand and found a way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-problems-tim-henman-how-to-beat\">Tim Henman reveals the tactics needed to beat Jannik Sinner \u2013 but it\u2019s easier said than done<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 former British No 1 makes bold Indian Wells prediction Kevin Palmer 05 Mar 2026 9:00 AM Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz with Greg Rusedski inset Carlos Alcaraz has started 2026 in sparkling fashion and heads into the Indian Wells Masters as the man to beat, but former British No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1808485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}