{"id":36001,"date":"2025-03-14T08:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/jack-draper-to-face-carlos-alcaraz-at-indian-wells-in-first-masters-1000-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:04:53","slug":"jack-draper-to-face-carlos-alcaraz-at-indian-wells-in-first-masters-1000-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/jack-draper-to-face-carlos-alcaraz-at-indian-wells-in-first-masters-1000-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper to face Carlos Alcaraz at Indian Wells in first Masters 1000 semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>British No 1 defeats Ben Shelton 6-4 7-5 at BNP Paribas Open<\/li>\n<li>Draper meets two-time defending champion in last four in Indian Wells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jack Draper has booked his place in an ATP Masters 1000 semi-final for the first time after defeating American Ben Shelton in straight sets at the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n<p>The British No 1 edged ahead in the race between two of the rising stars of men\u2019s tennis with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Shelton, who was also out to reach the last four of a Masters event for the first time. Draper will next face two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz after the No 2 seed overcame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/13\/alex-de-minaur-vs-francisco-cerundolo-indian-wells-tennis-scores-results\">Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (4) in their quarter-final in Indian Wells on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/14\/indian-wells-tennis-semi-final-jack-draper-vs-carlos-alcaraz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British No 1 defeats Ben Shelton 6-4 7-5 at BNP Paribas Open Draper meets two-time defending champion in last four in Indian Wells Jack Draper has booked his place in an ATP Masters 1000 semi-final for the first time after defeating American Ben Shelton in straight sets at the BNP Paribas Open. The British No &#8230; <a title=\"Jack Draper to face Carlos Alcaraz at Indian Wells in first Masters 1000 semi-final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/jack-draper-to-face-carlos-alcaraz-at-indian-wells-in-first-masters-1000-semi-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jack Draper to face Carlos Alcaraz at Indian Wells in first Masters 1000 semi-final\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}