Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz ends Cameron Norrie's title defence and sets up Rafael Nadal meeting

Cameron Norrie's Indian Wells title defence was ended by the rising 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, who will face Rafael Nadal — unbeaten in 2022 — next.

Britain's Norrie lost the quarter-final 6-4 6-3 to Alcaraz, who becomes the second youngest male semi-finalist in Indian Wells history.

Spaniard Alcaraz reached the quarter-finals at last year's US Open.

Nadal won his 19th consecutive match since the start of the year with a 7-6 5-7 6-4 win over Nick Kyrgios.

Australian Kyrgios was broken when serving for the first set, and was warned after smashing his racquet in frustration.

He conceded the tiebreak 7-0 on a penalty point after being penalised for an audible obscenity directed at a heckler in the crowd.

The Australian world number 132 was unhappy with the noise the crowd made throughout the match and when he lost the deciding set he again smashed his racquet into the court.

It bounced and shot forward, narrowly missing a ball boy who had to take evasive action at the back of the court.

«Did I throw the racquet anywhere near him originally?» Kyrgios replied when quizzed about it after the match.

«It landed a metre from my foot and skidded and nearly hit him. I'm human. Things happen like that.

»Obviously it was a very misfortunate bounce. I think if I did that a million times over it wouldn't have gone that way.

«That's a question you're going to say after a three-hour battle against Nadal? He ducked. It was a complete accident. I didn't hit him, thankfully. It wasn't my intention.»

Kyrgios later tracked the ball boy down to apologise and promised to bring a racquetexternal-link to the venue for him later on Friday.

Kyrgios also felt umpire Carlos Bernardes allowed the crowd to be too noisy during points.

«I know when you play Rafa,