Jordan Thompson was at his finest in the important thing moments throughout a 7-6 (0), 4-6, 7-6 (5) upset of second-seed Stefanos Tsitsipas within the second spherical of the BNP Paribas Open on Friday in Indian Wells, Calif.
Neither participant broke serve within the first and third units earlier than Thompson cruised by way of the preliminary tiebreaker, then gained 4 of the 5 factors within the decisive tiebreaker.
Thompson, a 28-year-old Australian who’s ranked 87th on the earth, defeated one of many world’s high 10 gamers for simply the second time in his profession.
Thompson mentioned, “It’s unreal. At a Masters 1000, in the (Indian Wells) Tennis Garden here. It’s one of my favorite tournaments, I think a lot of players’ favorite tournaments to play. To have a win like that is incredible. (I’m) really happy.”
Tsitsipas, a 24-year-old Greek participant who reached the Australian Open last this yr, completed with twice as many unforced errors as Thompson, 26-13. Thompson additionally had the sting in winners, 45-36.
“I wanted to take control of my service points,” Thompson mentioned. “Obviously, I can’t do much about his, he’s a big guy and he’s got a great serve. I wasn’t finding too much rhythm there on return towards the end but snuck one out. I stayed aggressive on serve and very thankful that last ball went wide.”
In different second-round motion, third-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway crushed Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-3, and Tenth-seeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain dominated Taiwanese qualifier Tung-Lin Wu 6-2, 6-4.
Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori knocked out Twenty second-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 7-6 (5), 6-2, and Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin downed Twenty ninth-seeded Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan 6-4, 6-0. Belarus’ Ilya Ivashka superior when the Netherlands’ Botic van de Zandschulp retired resulting from a sprained ankle whereas trailing 7-5, 3-2.
Australia’s Jason Kubler led 2-6, 7-6 (5), 3-0 when Twenty first-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria retired.
–Field Level Media