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Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest men's satellite fig 1 erstwhile helium won the US Open successful September aged 19 years and 4 monthsCarlos Alcaraz breezed past Daniil Medvedev to triumph the Indian Wells rubric and instrumentality to satellite fig one.
Spaniard Alcaraz, 19, needed lone 1 hr 11 minutes to seal a 6-3 6-2 triumph that took him supra Novak Djokovic astatine the apical of the ATP rankings.
It is the US Open champion's 3rd vocation Masters 1,000 title.
"It feels astonishing to assistance the trophy here, to retrieve the fig one. I would accidental this has been the cleanable tournament," Alcaraz said.
Djokovic was forced to withdraw from the tournament successful California due to the fact that helium was incapable to participate the United States due to the fact that helium is not vaccinated against Covid-19.
He volition besides miss this week's Miami Open, wherever Alcaraz is defending champion.
Alcaraz broke Russian Medvedev aboriginal successful the opening acceptable to unfastened up a 3-0 pb and ne'er looked similar relinquishing his grip connected the match.
He won the archetypal 10 points of the 2nd acceptable to determination into a 4-0 lead, earlier sealing triumph without facing a interruption point.
"Daniil evidently didn't play astatine his champion level, but I'm precise blessed for my show and however I played this tournament," said Alcaraz.
"I expected a tougher match. Against him is ever a maneuver match, and I did cleanable today. That's wherefore it looks casual - but it wasn't."
Alcaraz is lone the 2nd subordinate aft compatriot Rafael Nadal to triumph astatine slightest 3 Masters 1,000 titles arsenic a teenager.
He mislaid the satellite fig 1 spot successful January aft Djokovic's triumph astatine the Australian Open, which Alcaraz missed due to the fact that of injury.
He returned to enactment successful February, winning the Argentina Open and reaching the last of the Rio Open.
Alcaraz indispensable successfully support his Miami Open rubric successful bid to enactment astatine the apical of the rankings.
Defeat was Medvedev's archetypal successful 19 matches, having travel into the tourney connected the backmost of successive wins successful Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai.
He struggled to header with the windy conditions against Alcaraz and besides appeared hampered by an ankle wounded suffered successful his fourth-round triumph implicit Alexander Zverev arsenic good arsenic a divided thumb sustained successful the quarter-finals against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
"Why didn't I play my best? I don't know," said Medvedev.
"Maybe it was his ball. Maybe it was the wind. The ankle, the thumb, the tennis, wind, whatever. But we astir made it. I volition effort to beryllium amended adjacent time."
Nadal has dropped retired of the world's apical 10 for the archetypal clip since April 2005 - a tally of 912 consecutive weeks.
The 36-year-old, who has slipped to 13th, has not played since injuring his near limb astatine the Australian Open, but is hoping to instrumentality connected the clay of Monte Carlo adjacent month.
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