Alexander Zverev said it felt “very special” to become just the fifth player to reach the semi-finals of all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and join elite company after he booked his place in the last four at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n
The German claimed a confident 6-2 6-3 victory over Frenchman Arthur Fils to reach the last four of the California-based tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n
By completing the set of Masters 1000 semi-final appearances, Zverev joins a club featuring only tennis’ ‘Big Four’ – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.<\/p>\n
“It’s very special to be one of five players in history to ever do it,” Zverev said. <\/p>\n
“For sure, yeah, it’s something that I’m very proud of.”<\/p>\n
Zverev has taken the title at five of the nine Masters 1000 events, but he has never won a Grand Slam title despite reaching three major finals.<\/p>\n
The fourth seed will have to snap a five-match losing streak against world number two Jannik Sinner if he is to move one step closer to the Indian Wells trophy.<\/p>\n
Sinner, the reigning Wimbledon champion, sealed his spot in the semi-finals later on Thursday with a rapid 66-minute 6-1 6-2 win against American Learner Tien.<\/p>\n
The world number two, who has never won at Indian Wells, is bidding for his first title in 2026 after a semi-final exit a the Australian Open and a quarter-final defeat in last month’s Qatar Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev said it felt “very special” to become just the fifth player to reach the semi-finals of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472592","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\/472592","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=472592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}