Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has qualified for the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, California, United States. He beat the American Ben Shelton in two sets (7-6, 6-1) and in the quarterfinals he will play against the Czech Jiri Lehecka, who beat the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the round of 16. For Sinner, who is in third place in the men’s ranking of the best tennis players in the world (the first is the Serbian Novak Djokovic and the second is the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz), it is the eighteenth consecutive victory: this year, moreover, he started the season by winning the Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, the most important and prestigious in tennis. It is the most important title of his career so far. The Masters 1000 tournaments are second in importance only to those of the Grand Slam, in fact.
Today in Indian Wells another round of 16 final will be played with an Italian tennis player competing: 20-year-old Luca Nardi, who surprisingly beat Novak Djokovic in three sets on Tuesday (6-4, 3-6, 6-3). With this victory Nardi went from 123rd to 95th place in the world rankings.
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