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Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will face each other in the blunderbuss semifinal of the BNP Paribas Open. If Sinner were to beat his young Spanish rival, he would become the first ATP No.2 of Italian tennis.
The Italian and the Spaniard have not faced each other in an official match since October 3, 2023 and it seems like a really long time ago. In over 5 months, Sinner and Alcaraz have almost exchanged roles on the ATP Tour.
While the Spaniard has struggled and continued not to win a tournament since Wimbledon 2023, Jannik improved greatly match after match and triumphed at the Australian Open. Sinner was instrumental for Italy in winning the Davis Cup and reached the final of the Finals in Turin.
Despite this type of scenario, the two young athletes reached the semi-finals of the ATP Master 1000 in Indian Wells in perhaps identical conditions.
In the meantime, a few hours before the start of the highly anticipated semi-final, Sinner and Alcaraz trained together, as evidenced by a video shared by the @giovannipelazzo X account, which you can see below:
Carlos Alcaraz 🇪🇸 e Jannik Sinner 🇮🇹 si allenano insieme prima della semifinale di domani ad Indian Wells 🫂❤️pic.twitter.com/JFC5hvbXRJ
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