{"id":1827445,"date":"2026-03-15T00:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1827445"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:06:35","slug":"jannik-sinner-achieves-a-feat-carlos-alcaraz-cant-match-as-he-reaches-indian-wells-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1827445","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner achieves a feat Carlos Alcaraz can&#8217;t match as he reaches Indian Wells final"},"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 achieves a feat Carlos Alcaraz can\u2019t match as he reaches Indian Wells final<\/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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lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Left to right: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> has failed to win the last two Grand Slam tournaments played on hard courts, but he is still setting records on his favourite surface after he eased past Alexander Zverev to reach the Indian Wells Masters finals.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz has got the better of Sinner on his favoured hard court surfaces by winning the US Open last September and backing it up by lifting his first Australian Open title at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Sinner is still viewed by many to be the king of hard court tennis and he is aiming to reassert his authority on the surface at the Indian Wells Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner is searching for his first title of 2026 and he looked to be in ominous form as he brushed Zverev aside with a 6-2, 6-4 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great achievement. The first time here in the final, it means a lot to me,\u201d said Sinner. \u201cThe third time that I\u2019ve played the semis here, so I\u2019m very happy about that. Now let\u2019s see what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-battle-carlos-alcaraz-crucial-moment\">Jannik Sinner faces a crucial moment that could define Carlos Alcaraz rivalry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-beats-alcaraz-djokovic-statistic\">Jannik Sinner\u2019s latest win produced a staggering statistic Alcaraz and Djokovic can\u2019t match<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, the next one will be a very tough test, but I\u2019m extremely happy. We have improved this week, this tournament, and that for me was the most important part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great performance from my side. Sascha didn\u2019t play very well today, I felt like. I broke him a couple of times in the first set, which gave me confidence to continue, and I served very well at important moments. I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win allowed Sinner to join an elite list of players who have reached the final at six ATP Masters 1000 events on hard court after Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>He has also become the first man to reach the final at consecutive Masters 1000 events without dropping a set since Andy Murray achieved the feat in his golden 2016 season, when he achiveed that feat in Cincinnati and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner has yet to drop a set at Indian Wells and the bad news for his opponent in Sunday\u2019s final is the last time he did this at the Paris Masters last November, he also won the final against Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>This latest win for Sinner against Zverev was his six successive win against the German, with former British No 1 Tim Henman suggesting the key points were won by the world No 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZverev kind of handed Sinner the breaks in the first set,\u201d Henman told Sky Sports. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t as if Sinner played brilliant tennis to win those points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had opportunities in the early part of the second set and you felt as if Zverev could have got one of those, then he would have turned the tables, but it was a little bit of a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu because you were waiting for Sinner to take those opportunities and it was very comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite this latest crushing victory, Sinner will not be able to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Alcaraz<\/a> for the world No 1 ranking any time soon as the Spaniard has a comfortable lead at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/john-isner-too-early-to-tell-carlos-alcaraz-widened-gap-jannik-sinner\">John Isner says \u2018too early to tell\u2019 if Carlos Alcaraz has widened gap to Jannik Sinner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner achieves a feat Carlos Alcaraz can\u2019t match as he reaches Indian Wells final Kevin Palmer 15 Mar 2026 12:06 AM Left to right: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner Jannik Sinner has failed to win the last two Grand Slam tournaments played on hard courts, but he is still setting records on his favourite [&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-1827445","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\/1827445","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=1827445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}