On the 16th, Beijing time, Alcaraz, the two-time champion of the tournament and the second seed of Spain, finally lost to the British left-handed player Draper 1:6, 6:0, 4:6 after a three-set battle, and stopped in the men's singles semifinals of the 2025 Indian Wells Tennis Masters.

Alcaraz and Draper greet each other

The men's and women's ATP 1,000-point Masters has come to an end in the Southern California desert. Facing the menacing 13-seeded Draper, Alcaraz was a little slower to get into the form, and after starting the game 0-3, he was broken again in the sixth game and gave the first set to the winner. However, the 21-year-old Alcaraz fought back strongly in the second set, swept 6 games in a row, and "sent eggs" with color.

Alcaraz fell into turbulence again, lost serve twice, and fell behind 2:5, although he broke through in the eighth game with no way out, he could not further recover the decline, and suffered a setback in 1 hour and 44 minutes, ending a 16-game winning streak in cross-season history.

The popular Alcaraz won the Indian Wells Tennis Masters in 2023 and 2024, and this year he was originally expected to catch up with the footsteps of the Swiss legend Federer and Serbian veteran Djokovic in the "Big Three" to complete the three-game hegemony and become the third person in the history of the tournament.