Indian Wells Masters: Sinner beats Gasquet in straight sets, into third round

Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 11 seed, advanced to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters by beating Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-3, 7-6 (2) at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.

Sinner, ranked No 13, will play the winner of the match between Frenchman Adrian Mannarino and Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 19 seed, next.

This was his first match since Daniil Medvedev broke his streak of seven consecutive wins in the Rotterdam final last month.

Gasquet, ranked No 43, won against Croat qualifier Borna Gojo (6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2) in the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters.

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

• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Holger Rune
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Sebastian Baez
• Taylor Fritz vs. Ben Shelton
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Jack Sock
• Guido Pella vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Andy Murray vs. Radu Albot
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Alex De Minaur
• Borna Coric vs. Alex Molcan
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Tommy Paul
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Stan Wawrinka: saturday
• Pedro Martinez vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime: saturday
• Daniel Evans vs. Jack Draper: saturday
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Jiri Lehecka: 6-4, 6-2
• Frances Tiafoe (14) beat Marcos Giron: 6-2, 6-2
• Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Brandon Nakashima: 6-4, 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (13) beat Oscar Otte: 6-3, 6-3
• Taro Daniel (Q) beat Matteo Berrettini (20): 7-6 (5), 0-6, 6-3
• Ugo Humbert beat Denis Shapovalov (25): 7-5, 6-4
• Alexander Zverev (12) beat Pedro Cachin: 6-3, 6-1
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (23) beat Yibing Wu (WC): 6-4, 6-1
• Alejandro Tabilo (Q) beat Maxime Cressy (32): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (13)
• Jason Kubler beat Grigor Dimitrov (21): 2-6, 7-6 (5), 3-0 ret.
• Jordan Thompson beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (2): 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Roberto Bautista Agut (22): 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Casper Ruud (3) beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-2, 6-3
• Ilya Ivashka beat Botic van de Zandschulp (28): 7-5, 3-2 ret.
• Cameron Norrie (10) beat Tung-lin Wu: 6-2, 6-4
• Cristian Garin (Q) beat Yoshihito Nishioka (29): 6-4, 6-0