{"id":470353,"date":"2026-03-11T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:52:07","slug":"indian-wells-cameron-norrie-may-face-carlos-alcaraz-in-quarter-finals-after-beating-rinky-hijikata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470353\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells: Cameron Norrie may face Carlos Alcaraz in quarter-finals after beating Rinky Hijikata"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain’s Cameron Norrie beat Australian qualifier Rinky Hijikata in the last 16 at Indian Wells and could meet world number one Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Norrie is yet to drop a set at this year’s tournament, backing up his win over sixth seed Alex de Minaur in the previous round with an impressive 6-4 6-2 victory over world number 117 Hijikata in one hour and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old left-hander broke Hijikata’s serve in the opening game of the match and, after wrapping up the first set, broke twice more in the second to race into the last eight.<\/p>\n

On his own serve, the 27th seed faced only one break point in the match.<\/p>\n

Norrie has a good record at the hard-court event in California.<\/p>\n

This is his eighth appearance in the men’s singles and it is the fourth time that he has made it to at least the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n

He won the title in 2021, but lost in the last eight in the following two years.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz will hope to secure his quarter-final place against Norwegian 13th seed Casper Ruud later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Norrie has won three of his eight tour-level matches against the Spaniard, including their most recent meeting at the Paris Masters<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Cameron Norrie beat Australian qualifier Rinky Hijikata in the last 16 at Indian Wells and could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}