Indian Wells, California. – qualifier Christian Garin Chile’s third seeded blow casper rood The Norwegian 6-4, 7-6(2) at the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday marked his first win over a top-five player in nearly two years.
Garin, ranked 97, had 39 winners, while No. 4-ranked Rudd managed just 15 winners against 29 unforced errors in a match that lasted 1 hour 59 minutes.
“Casper is one of those players I really admire,” Gerin said. “I’m very happy to play like this, to be aggressive, to go to the net. That’s the way I like to play and I have to beat players like this.”
Garin, 26, improved to 3-1 lifetime against two-time Grand Slam finalist Ruud since they first met on tour in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2019. Garrin advances to face the No. 23 seed in the Round of 16 Alejandro Davidovich Fokinawho beat 13th seed Karen Khachanov 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.
Cameron NorrieThe 2021 Indian Wells champion came back from a set down 3-0 to beat world No. 103 taro daniels 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-2. 10th seed Norrie improves to 11-3 lifetime at Indian Wells and faces sixth seed Andrey Rublevwho beat ugo humbert 7-5, 6-3. Qualifier’s Daniels looking for another eye-opening win after his second-round stunner Matteo Berretini,
German alexander zverevJoe missed the second half of the 2022 season after tearing three ligaments in his right ankle at the French Open, defeating Finland emile rusuvuori 7-5, 1-6, 7-5. He moves on to face the fifth seed Daniil Medvedevwho defeated Ilya Ivashka 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
top american women jessica pegulaNo. 3 seed, after trailing by a set in the second match, defeated the 26th seed Anastasia Potapova 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Pegula was close to losing to the 21-year-old upstart. Serving at 4-4 in the second set, she faced a break point but came out of trouble to win the set. Pegula again trailed 2–0 and 3–1 in the third set, but drew even with a break in the sixth game. She broke Potapova to close out the match.
“I feel like I’ve started playing a little smarter, getting a little more depth on my shots,” Pegula said. “Everything went a little better, but she came out playing really well. I was very disappointed but she’s a great player.”
pegula, who edged Camilla Giorgi In their opening match, they go on to face Petra Kvitovawho beat jelena ostapenko 0-6, 6-0, 6-4.
number 6 seed Coco Gauffplaying on the eve of his 19th birthday made the past easy Linda Noskova Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3 in teen showdown to advance to face Sweden Rebecca Petersonwho beat switzerland Jill Teachman 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Gauff said, “To be honest, I was feeling a bit of pressure going into today’s match, because of the age, which I never thought about in the past.” California desert for the first time.
ranked seventh Maria Sakkari beat number 27 ahelina kalinina 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Sakkari, who had reached the final last year, reached the round of 16 for the third time in five BNP Paribas Opens in his career. Greek player will face No. 17 seed Karolina Pliskovawho beat the previous No. 11 seed veronika kudermetova 6-1, 7-5.