Carlos Alcaraz dominated against Grigor Dimitrov to guarantee his 2025 Indian Wells Masters quarter-finals berth. Although the wind was difficult, the World No.3 showed dominance in only 74 minutes with a convincing 6-1,

Carlitos has already lifted a trophy in 2025 – the Rotterdam ATP 500 last month – but was prematurely eliminated at the Australian Open and Doha ATP 500. Meanwhile, Alcaraz was the protagonist of a nice anecdote told by former chair umpire Carlos Bernardes during a recent interview with 'Il Corriere della Sera'.

Carlos Alcaraz displayed exceptional mastery at the ATP Indian Wells Masters, defeating Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-1 under windy conditions. This victory marks his 50th ATP Masters 1000 win and maintains his chance to join Federer and Djokovic in winning three consecutive Indian Wells titles.

The 21 year-old Alcaraz is bidding to become the youngest player to win three consecutive singles titles at any ATP Tour event — and just the third to do it at Indian Wells after Roger Federer (2004-06) and Novak Djokovic (2014-16).

His opponent in the quarterfinals will be Francisco Cerundolo, who is comfortable in these particularly slow conditions and who eliminated the Australian ace Alex de Minaur in the round of sixteen.

Alcaraz didn’t reject the notion. On Thursday, he showed why that may be true — at least during this unfathomable run he’s having. With a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Francisco Cerúndolo of Argentina, Alcaraz has now won 16 consecutive matches here and is now into the semifinals at Indian Wells for the fourth consecutive year.

Carlos Alcaraz explained how the Nike SB Dunk Low became his "lucky" sneakers for the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.

I think I just played a decent match or a good match with those conditions.” Victory for Alcaraz was a 16th straight win in Indian Wells for the Spaniard, who is the two-time

Second seed Carlos Alcaraz eased past Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-1 to reach a fourth consecutive quarter-final at Indian Wells on Thursday.