Shelton wins battle of the young stars in Indian Wells

American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, advanced to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters by edging out wildcard Jakub Mensik 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday night.

Shelton, ranked No 16, will face Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 22 seed, next.

Mensik, ranked No 81, defeated qualifier Seong-Chan Hong (6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters.

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
• Fabio Fognini vs. Sebastian Baez
• Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Taylor Fritz vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Alexandre Muller vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Luca Nardi
• Milos Raonic vs. Holger Rune
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Tomas Machac
• Cameron Norrie vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Patrick Kypson vs. Ugo Humbert
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Karen Khachanov vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Borna Coric
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Alexander Bublik vs. Juncheng Shang
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Jiri Lehecka: saturday
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Tallon Griekspoor: saturday
• 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 beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-2, 3-1 ret.