Indian Wells
\n Sinner surrenders two games in ruthless Indian Wells victory<\/p>\n
Italian next faces Shapovalov<\/p>\n
March 07, 2026<\/p>\n
ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner is aiming for his first Indian Wells title.
\n By Grant Thompson<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner<\/a> was relentless in his opening performance at the BNP Paribas Open<\/a> on Friday, dispatching Czech qualifier Dalibor Svrcina<\/a> 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n \nSeeking his first Indian Wells trophy, the second seed overwhelmed Svrcina with heavy ballstriking and imposing pace en route to a 64-minute victory.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel mentally I\u2019m in a good place,\u201d said Sinner, who was competing for the first time since his Doha defeat to Jakub Mensik<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m calm, I\u2019m relaxed. But I\u2019m also very happy to compete. We did a lot of work. Many, many hours on court. Many hours in the gym. I\u2019m trying to get a little bit stronger [physically]. We did double sessions, not many days off at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner\u2019s best result in the California desert is a semi-final run in 2023 and 2024. Should the 24-year-old triumph this fortnight, he would complete the set of titles at all six hard-court ATP Masters 1000 events.<\/p>\n Sinner played\u00a0tight to the baseline and forced Svrcina to take a deep court position, allowing the Italian opportunities to move forward and finish points at net. He converted 15 of his 17 net points, according to Infosys ATP Stats. <\/p>\n From 1-1 in the opening set, Sinner tallied nine consecutive games before Svrcina won another game. The 24-time tour-level titlist, who is five victories shy of his 100th ATP Masters 1000 match win, improved to 8-2 this season.<\/p>\n \nThe No. 2 player in the PIF ATP Rankings next faces Canadian Denis Shapovalov<\/a>, who ousted 29th seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(5). The lefty crushed 43 winners against the Argentine and came to net 22 times, converting 15 of those points.<\/p>\n Sinner and Shapovalov are tied at 1-1 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. Sinner downed the Canadian in four sets at last year’s US Open<\/a>. Shapovalov won their five-set clash at the 2021 Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian Wells Sinner surrenders two games in ruthless Indian Wells victory Italian next faces Shapovalov March 07, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-520010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}