{"id":62385,"date":"2025-03-09T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62385"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:09:04","slug":"alcaraz-dominates-at-indian-wells-as-sinners-ban-shakes-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/09\/alcaraz-dominates-at-indian-wells-as-sinners-ban-shakes-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Dominates at Indian Wells as Sinner\u2019s Ban Shakes Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz wasted no time asserting his dominance at Indian Wells, cruising past France\u2019s Quentin Halys 6-4, 6-2 in just 67 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>His victory comes amid major shake-ups in the tournament, following Jannik Sinner\u2019s three-month doping ban and Alexander Zverev\u2019s withdrawal, leaving Alcaraz as the highest-seeded player in the men\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n<p>With a shot at a historic third consecutive title, Alcaraz admitted to early nerves but quickly found his rhythm, showcasing a commanding service game.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, Aryna Sabalenka edged past McCartney Kessler, while Madison Keys delivered a dominant 6-3, 6-0 win over Anastasia Potapova. Meanwhile, Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff survived tough matches to advance.<\/p>\n<p>As the tournament unfolds, all eyes remain on Alcaraz, who looks poised to etch his name alongside Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in Indian Wells history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0 Carlos Alcaraz wasted no time asserting his dominance at Indian Wells, cruising past France\u2019s Quentin Halys 6-4, 6-2 in just 67 minutes. His victory comes amid major shake-ups in the tournament, following Jannik Sinner\u2019s three-month doping ban and Alexander Zverev\u2019s withdrawal, leaving Alcaraz as the highest-seeded player in the men\u2019s draw. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62387,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions\/62387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}