Indian Wells: Top-seeded Medvedev wins, Pliskova upset

Top-seeded Daniil Medvedev beat Filip Krajinovic 6-2 7-6 (1) to succeed in the spherical of 16 on a gusty on the BNP Paribas Open.
Karolina Plisova, the ladies’s high seed, was upset by Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Medvedev, the U.S. Open champion, related on 70% of his first serves and fired 4 aces regardless of difficult climate circumstances.
Haddad Maia acquired into the primary draw as a fortunate loser. She misplaced within the closing spherical of qualifying and acquired in when No. 29 seed Nadia Podoroska withdrew with a thigh damage. Haddad Maia inherited Podoroska’s first-round bye after which beat Mayir Sherif within the second spherical.
Ranked a hundred and fifteenth, the Brazilian reached the spherical of 16 at a WTA 1000 occasion for the primary time.
On a windy day on the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Pliskova held serve to tie the second set 5-5, however she acquired damaged eight instances within the match. Haddad Maia held after which broke Pliskova within the closing sport to wrap up her second profession win over a Top-5 participant.
No 15 Coco Gauff misplaced to Twenty first-seeded Paula Badosa 6-2 6-2 in a match that was briefly suspended by rain on an evening of untamed climate within the desert.
No 10 Angelique Kerber defeated Twentieth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2 1-6 6-4. No 12 Ons Jabeur beat Danielle Collins 6-1 6-3 for her Tour-leading forty sixth match win of the yr.
No 16 seed Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 champion, misplaced to 18th-seeded Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (5) 6-3.
On the boys’s facet, No 6 Casper Ruud outlasted Lloyd Harris 6-7 (4) 6-4 6-4. No 8 Hubert Hurkacz and Tenth-seeded Diego Schwartzman superior. No 16 Reilly Opelka misplaced to Twenty third-ranked Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 6-4.
No 9 Denis Shapovalov was overwhelmed by Nineteenth-seeded Aslan Karatsev 7-5 6-2.