Indian Wells: Sweden’s Peterson upends Teichmann to reach last 16

Swede Rebecca Peterson upset in-form Swiss Jil Teichmann 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday.

Peterson, ranked No 103, will face the winner of the match between American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, and Czech Linda Noskova next.

Earlier in the tournament, the Swede edged out Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (7-5, 5-7, 7-5) and benefited from the abandonment of Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 22 seed (3-0).

Teichmann, ranked No 39, beat American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger (6-1, 6-4) and No 9 seed Belinda Bencic (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) in the previous rounds.

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Varvara Gracheva vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Elena Rybakina vs. Paula Badosa
• Martina Trevisan vs. Karolina Muchova
• Ons Jabeur vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia
• Bernarda Pera vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Emma Raducanu vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Iga Swiatek vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Petra Kvitova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Coco Gauff vs. Linda Noskova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jessica Pegula
• Maria Sakkari vs. Anhelina Kalinina: sunday