Indian Wells: Cerundolo through to third round after Shevchenko retires
Francisco Cerundolo benefited from the abandonment of Alexander Shevchenko (6-2, 3-1) on Friday evening and will play the winner of the match between American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, and wildcard Jakub Mensik in the next round
Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 22 seed, moved into the third round of the Indian Wells Masters when Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko retired on Friday evening at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Cerundolo, ranked No 22, led 6-2, 3-1 when Shevchenko, ranked No 51, pulled out due to illness.
The Argentinian will play the winner of the match between American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, and wildcard Jakub Mensik next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters, the Kazakh edged out German Dominik Koepfer (6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (3)).
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Karen Khachanov vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Borna Coric
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Milos Raonic vs. Holger Rune
- Fabio Fognini vs. Sebastian Baez
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Tomas Machac
- Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda
- Gael Monfils vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Cameron Norrie vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Patrick Kypson vs. Ugo Humbert
- Tommy Paul vs. Alex Michelsen
- Novak Djokovic vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Alexander Bublik vs. Juncheng Shang
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Ben Shelton vs. Jakub Mensik
- Lucas Pouille vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Alexander Zverev vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Andrey Rublev vs. Andy Murray
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Constant Lestienne: friday
- Taro Daniel vs. Alex De Minaur: friday
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Jannik Sinner: friday