Beijing time, March 21: The BNP Paribas tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, usa this morning beijing time ended the last matchday of competition. Fritz, the No. 20 seed who fought on home soil in the highly watched men's singles final, defeated Spain's no.4 seed Nadal at the 21st Grand Slam Championship with a score of 6-3, 7-6 (5), ending his opponent's unbeaten season and winning the first Masters of his career. In the women's singles final, which ended earlier, Poland's Sweakt, the 3rd seed, defeated the 6th seed Greece Sakari in two straight sets to win the crown for the first time in her career, and she also rose to the second place in the world in the latest world rankings announced today. Let's take a look at the closing day of this year's Indian Wells Tournament.
Today is the closing day of this year's Indian Wells Tournament, and according to the schedule, the women's singles and men's singles finals will be held. The women's singles final was played first, with the tournament's No. 3 seed 2020 French Open champion Poland's Svyakt and no. 6 seed Greece's Sakkari. The two have met four times before, sakkari have an advantage of 3 wins and 1 loss, the most recent of which occurred in the semi-final of this year's Doha tournament, when Swiact won two straight sets to end a three-game losing streak against Sakkari and eventually won the Doha tournament. As a result, the pre-match parties were also optimistic that Svillactor would be able to win the game.
The match began at 4:00 a.m. Beijing time today in Court 1, and the referee of the match was Zhang Juan, the gold medal referee from China. After the start of the game, the two sides began to attack without much testing, and at one point it seemed very anxious, but Sweiakt's ability to grasp the key points was stronger and he won the first set 6-4 with the advantage of one more break to take the initiative of the game. After entering the second set, Sweiakt maintained the fiery feel of the first set, and Sakkari had more unforced mistakes, and finally Sweiakt won the game with another set of 6-1. It was Sweiakt's second singles title this season and the fifth tour singles title of her career, the first time she won the WTA Crown, and with 1,000 championship points she rose to a new career high in the world rankings.
The women's singles final was followed by the men's singles final, which this year was played between 21st Grand Slam Champions Tournament No. 4 seed Spanish champion Nadal and No. 20 seed U.S. player Fritz. In yesterday's semi-finals, Nadal defeated his compatriot Alcaraz, who was 17 years younger, after a fierce battle of 3 hours and 12 minutes, and Fritz defeated Russian adept Rublev in two straight sets to reach the Masters final for the first time in his career. Nadal and Fritz met once in the final of the 2020 Acapulco tournament when Nadal won in two straight sets, and before the game, all parties were optimistic that Nadal would be able to win easily.
The match began at 6:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning in Court 1, and the referee of the match was Bernards, a gold medal referee from Brazil. Nadal, who took the lead in choosing a serve after the game began, was completely out of shape after being broken twice in a row before a 0-4 score, and in the fifth set Nadal completed the first save of the game to chase the score to 1-4. The two sides then won fritz's serve, and Nadal completed the break to chase the score to 3-5, but in the ninth set Fritz again broke to win the first set 6-3 to take the initiative of the game. After the game entered the second set, the two sides were entangled, and in their respective serves, both sides needed to decide the winner of the second set by grabbing seven. The two sides drew 5-5 in the first ten points of the rush, and then Fritz won the game by two consecutive points to win the game 7-5 to win the game.
The title was Fritz's second career title and his first Masters title, and he became the first American player to win the tournament's singles title since Agassi won in 2001. In the latest edition of the World Rankings, updated today, he reached 13th to set a new career high. It is worth mentioning that four consecutive Indian Wells tournaments since 2018 have produced new Masters champions. It is worth mentioning that Fritz was injured before the game, he played in a closed game, and being able to beat Nadal in the game to win the championship said that "it is an honor to play with you on the pitch, Rafa you are one of the greatest players in our sport." I only cry when I am very happy. Today I try to stay calm. ”
Runner-up Nadal's winning streak at the start of the season was thus fixed at 20 games, and his 12-game winning streak in the singles final was thus ended. But the 600 points from the runner-up also helped Nadal return to world third in the latest edition of the world rankings. In a post-match interview, Nadal said, "Congratulations to Taylor, congratulations to you and your team. Today you did a great job and played well. I've tried my best in the game and a bit unlikely to reverse today, but we played really well. It's a pleasure to be back in this event that I love. Thanks to my team, we are very satisfied with the work done in recent months and have done a very good job. In the clay season we will continue to work hard and do more training to get through days like today. According to the schedule, Nadal will not play in the Miami Open, which starts this week, he will return directly to Spain to prepare for this year's European clay season, and his next game will be the Monte Carlo Masters.
This year's Indian Wells Tournament has come to an end, and this week's Miami Open will begin again, and we will continue to pay attention to the coverage of the event.