Indian Wells lucky loser Nardi makes most of second chance, advances to third round

Italian lucky loser Luca Nardi advanced to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against Chinese Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday evening.

Nardi, ranked No 123, will play the winner of the match between Serb Novak Djokovic, the top seed, and Australian Aleksandar Vukic next.

In the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters, Zhang, ranked No 50, edged out American wildcard Aleksandar Kovacevic (6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-5).

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
• Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda
• Novak Djokovic vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Fabio Fognini vs. Sebastian Baez
• Taylor Fritz vs. Alejandro Tabilo: saturday
• Grigor Dimitrov (13) beat Alexandre Muller: 7-5, 6-2
• Arthur Fils beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (23): 6-3, 6-4
• 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.