{"id":22995,"date":"2026-03-08T00:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22995"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:52:21","slug":"can-grigor-dimitrov-take-carlos-alcaraz-out-of-his-comfort-zone-indian-wells-day-4-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22995","title":{"rendered":"Can Grigor Dimitrov take Carlos Alcaraz out of his comfort zone? | Indian Wells Day 4 Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Indian Wells will offer a different and potentially more difficult challenge. Pegula is just 8-7 here, and has never made the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s always been really tough for me here,\u201d she admits. \u201cI think it\u2019s one of the tougher tournaments, honestly, to win because of how drastic the conditions can change from morning to night, windy, cold, hot, dry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pegula says she\u2019s more adaptable than she once was. She\u2019ll get her first chance to show it when she takes on Vekic during the evening session in Stadium 1. She and the Croatian have played twice, both times on grass, and Pegula won both in close two-setters.<\/p>\n<p>By Saturday evening, conditions should be slower than they were for either of those grass-court encounters. Vekic would seem like a good opponent for Pegula. She hits a hard, but not overpowering ball, which should give the American a chance to counter-punch with pace. Vekic, who is ranked 103rd at the moment, is also a streakier player than the dialed-in version of Pegula we\u2019ve seen to start the year. <strong>Winner: Pegula<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com\/news\/articles\/alcaraz-dimitrov-pegula-vekic-khachanov-fonseca-indian-wells-day-4-previews\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Wells will offer a different and potentially more difficult challenge. Pegula is just 8-7 here, and has never made the quarterfinals. \u201cIt&#8217;s always been really tough for me here,\u201d she admits. \u201cI think it\u2019s one of the tougher tournaments, honestly, to win because of how drastic the conditions can change from morning to night, &#8230; <a title=\"Can Grigor Dimitrov take Carlos Alcaraz out of his comfort zone? | Indian Wells Day 4 Previews\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22995\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can Grigor Dimitrov take Carlos Alcaraz out of his comfort zone? | Indian Wells Day 4 Previews\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}