Indian Wells 2024 Day 3 Recap: Results and Highlights as Alcaraz and Sinner Progress

The seeded gamers have entered the fold on the 2024 BNP Paribas Open, and Carlos Alcaraz bought his title defence underway with a 5-7 6-0 6-1 win over Matteo Arnaldi.

Joint event favorite within the betting, Jannik Sinner additionally delivered a bagel en path to his 6-3 6-0 win over Thanasi Kokkinakis.

There have been additionally stable straight-set wins for Andrey Rublev, Sascha Zverev, Alex de Minaur, and Stefanos Tsitsipas. Simply two of the fifteen seeds in motion weren’t capable of make progress: Karen Khachanov fell to the damaging Thiago Seyboth Wild, whereas Fabian Marozsan took out twenty fourth seed Nicolas Jarry.

You’ll be able to see the total checklist of outcomes beneath, together with the delayed spherical of 128 matches that are actually accomplished.

Day Three 2024 BNP Paribas Open Spherical of 128 and 64 Outcomes

Spherical of 128

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Roberto Carballes Baena
Flavio Cobolli
6-4 6-4

Lukas Klein (Q)
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (Q)
7-6(8) 6-4

Alexandre Muller (Q)
Hugo Grenier (Q)
7-6(5) 7-5

Denis Shapovalov (PR)
Botic van de Zandschulp
6-1 6-4

Alejandro Tabilo
Pavel Kotov
4-6 6-3 7-5

Zhizhen Zhang
Aleksandar Kovacevic (WC)
6-2 7-6(3) 7-5

Spherical of 64

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Carlos Alcaraz (2)
Matteo Arnaldi
5-7 6-0 6-1

Jannik Sinner (3)
Thanasi Kokkinakis
6-3 6-0

Andrey Rublev (5)
Andy Murray
7-6(3) 6-1

Alexander Zverev (6)
Christopher O’Connell
6-4 6-4

Alex de Minaur (10)
Taro Daniel
6-1 6-2

Stefanos Tsitsipas (11)
Lucas Pouille (Q)
6-3 6-2

Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q)
Karen Khachanov (15)
6-1 7-5

Ben Shelton (16)
Jakub Mensik (WC)
4-6 6-3 6-4

Frances Tiafoe (17)
Dusan Lajovic
6-3 6-3

Alexander Bublik (20)
Juncheng Shang (Q)
6-4 6-1

Francisco Cerundolo (22)
Alexander Shevchenko
6-2 3-1 ret.

Fabian Marozsan
Nicolas Jarry (24)
3-6 7-5 6-4

Jan-Lennard Struff (25)
Borna Coric
3-7 6-2 7-6(9)

Tallon Griekspoor (28)
Yannick Hanfmann
6-3 6-3

Felix Auger-Aliassime (31)
Fixed Lestienne (Q)
6-4 6-1

Jiri Lehecka (32)
Brandon Nakashima (WC)
3-6 6-3 6-4

Alcaraz Hits Again to See Off Arnaldi

Carlos Alcaraz recovered from a set right down to see off Matteo Arnaldi 6-7(5), 6-0, 6-1 to kick off his title defence marketing campaign.

The proficient Italian, who shocked Casper Ruud at the least years Madrid Open, made a formidable begin on Stadium 1 court docket, however Alcaraz reeled him in, chopping the errors en path to successful 9 straight video games.

Barring the Netflix Slam Exhibition, the Spaniard hasn’t performed since rolling his ankle in Rio, however he confirmed no indicators of damage as his motion was pedal to the steel.

I needed to change just some issues. I made just a few errors within the first set. I needed to put in additional first serves within the second and third units, and I feel that was an enormous key to enhancing my stage a bit bit, to being within the rallies—lengthy rallies as nicely—to getting the rhythm, and I’m actually blissful to get it on the finish. Alcaraz on his win over Arnaldi.

Sinner Sinks Kokkinakis

Jannik Sinner has now received 26 of his final 27 matches, and he confirmed extra dominance in his opening-round victory over Thansi Kokkinakis.

The Aussie, who made the fourth spherical again in 2015 and had a formidable win over Marcos Giron in his opening spherical, had little reply for Sinner’s rasping groundstrokes as he fell to a 6-3, 6-0 loss.

After warding off a break level at 2-2 within the opener, Sinner by no means seemed again, taking cost along with his forehand and displaying glorious defence from his backhand, successful the ultimate 9 video games of the match to set a tie with Jan-Lennard Struff, who saved match factors within the third set tie break towards Borna Coric.

It was a bit breezy in the present day, so it was robust to play, particularly to start with as a result of it’s my first match right here. I feel I might be very blissful. He’s a terrific opponent and a terrific participant. He serves actually, actually huge. You all the time can set aim after aim after which while you attain one aim, attempt to work arduous for the subsequent aim,” Sinner mentioned. “I really feel like I nonetheless have to enhance many issues. Beginning on the court docket, the serve I even have to enhance and attempt to combine up the sport. We labored earlier than coming right here loads within the gymnasium. These are the issues that push me to do higher and hopefully, I can present this additionally on the court docket. Sinner on his win and targets after his maiden Slam win.

Different Matches of Observe

Indian Wells Day 4 Spherical of 64 Matches

Which matches have you ever loved at Indian Wells to date? Who’s your decide for the title?