Indian Wells Masters: Alcaraz survives scare against Arnaldi to reach third round

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the second seed, won against Italian Matteo Arnaldi 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday night.

Alcaraz, ranked No 2, will play Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 31 seed, next.

Arnaldi, ranked No 40, beat Frenchman Luca Van Assche (7-6 (6), 7-6 (3)) in the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):

• Daniil Medvedev vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Gael Monfils vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Casper Ruud vs. Lukas Klein
• Tommy Paul vs. Alex Michelsen
• Novak Djokovic vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Fabio Fognini vs. Sebastian Baez
• Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Taylor Fritz vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Alexandre Muller vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Luca Nardi
• Milos Raonic vs. Holger Rune
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Tomas Machac
• Cameron Norrie vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Patrick Kypson vs. Ugo Humbert
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Dusan Lajovic: saturday
• Karen Khachanov vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild: saturday
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Borna Coric: saturday
• Alexander Bublik (20) beat Juncheng Shang (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Jiri Lehecka (32) beat Brandon Nakashima (WC): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Tallon Griekspoor (27) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 6-3
• Ben Shelton (16) beat Jakub Mensik (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Nicolas Jarry (24): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (11) beat Lucas Pouille (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Andrey Rublev (5) beat Andy Murray: 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Alexander Zverev (6) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-4, 6-4
• Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Constant Lestienne (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Alex De Minaur (10) beat Taro Daniel: 6-1, 6-2
• Jannik Sinner (3) beat Thanasi Kokkinakis: 6-3, 6-0
• Francisco Cerundolo (22) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-2, 3-1 ret.