Carlos Alcaraz And Elena Rybakina Rise To The Top At Indian Wells, Nuno Borges Wins Phoenix Challenger

Carlos Alcaraz won the Indian Wells Masters title without dropping a set. The hype is real, folks. Alcaraz demolished Daniil Medvedev in straight sets. Medvedev was on a three-tournament winning streak.

Elena Rybakina won the women’s title beating Aryna Sabalenka. These two are challenging Iga Swiatek for the big titles.

Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova won the women’s doubles title at Indian Wells (WTA)

Rohan Bopanna won the men’s doubles title with Matthew Ebden. Bopanna became the oldest man ever to win an ATP Masters title at age 43. (Reuters)

Remember how loaded the Phoenix Challenger draw was? It was Nuno Borges who won the title by beating Alexander Shevchenko.

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Players Complain About Slow Hard Court At Indian Wells

The courts at Indian Wells are slow. Many players including Daniil Medvedev are frustrated. The rallies are long and it takes forever to finish matches. The balls at Indian wells are bad too.

Speaking of the court speed, Medvedev said,

It’s a disgrace to the sport, this court. I will take five time violations to be as slow as these courts.

It’s a fricking disgrace to the sport, this court, we should be banned from playing here. And they call it hard courts. What a shame to call this awful court a hard cour

To make things worse, he also rolled his ankle during his victory over Alexander Zverev. The always quotable Medvedev had this to say about his toilet break, “I’ll go to the toilet but I don’t care, you can give me a time violation, I’ll be as slow as this court again. I don’t care, you can give me five time violations”.

Indian Wells courts have always been slow. Combined with the Penn balls, the pace of play appears to be slower this year.

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