Indian Wells: Korda finds form to beat Safiullin
Sebastian Korda won against Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-2 on Saturday night and will play the winner of the match between Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 4 seed, and Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena in the next round
American Sebastian Korda, the No 29 seed, beat Russian Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday night.
Korda, ranked No 29, will face the winner of the match between Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 4 seed, and Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters, Safiullin, ranked No 42, won against Daniel Evans (6-1, 5-7, 6-2).
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: saturday
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Denis Shapovalov: saturday
- Sebastian Baez (19) beat Fabio Fognini (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Alejandro Tabilo: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Grigor Dimitrov (13) beat Alexandre Muller: 7-5, 6-2
- Arthur Fils beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (23): 6-3, 6-4
- Luca Nardi (LL) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Adrian Mannarino (21) beat Tomas Machac: 6-1, 6-2
- Cameron Norrie (28) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-4, 6-4
- Ugo Humbert (14) beat Patrick Kypson (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Milos Raonic vs. Holger Rune
- Frances Tiafoe (18) beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-3, 6-3
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Karen Khachanov (15): 6-1, 7-5
- Jan-Lennard Struff (25) beat Borna Coric: 6-7 (3), 6-2, 7-6 (9)
- Alexander Bublik (20) beat Juncheng Shang (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-7 (5), 6-0, 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 (31) 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.