Indian Wells Masters: Fucsovics through to last 16, meets defending champ Fritz next

Hungarian Marton Fucsovics won against Slovak Alex Molcan 6-4, 6-2 to move into the last 16 of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Monday night.

Fucsovics, ranked No 84, will play American Taylor Fritz, the No 4 seed, next.

The Hungarian beat J.J. Wolf (1-6, 6-0, 6-3) and Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 16 seed (6-4, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters, Molcan, ranked No 63, won against Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas (6-3, 6-2) and Croat Borna Coric, the No 18 seed (6-3, 6-3).

Indian Wells Masters, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Jack Draper vs. Andy Murray
• Jannik Sinner vs. Adrian Mannarino: monday
• Taylor Fritz beat Sebastian Baez (30): 6-1, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Holger Rune (7): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (8) beat Francisco Cerundolo (27): 7-5, 6-4
• Tommy Paul (17) beat Hubert Hurkacz (9): 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (Q) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Ugo Humbert: 7-5, 6-3
• Frances Tiafoe (14) beat Jason Kubler: 6-3, 6-2
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (23) beat Karen Khachanov (13): 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
• Alexander Zverev (12) beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 7-5, 1-6, 7-5
• Cameron Norrie (10) beat Taro Daniel (Q): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-2
• Cristian Garin (Q) beat Casper Ruud (3): 6-4, 7-6 (2)