Tennis Tracker: Norrie and Ruud through at Indian Wells, Tsitsipas crashes out
00:39 CET - Petra Kvitova (33) is the second Czech star to seal their passage into the next round with a straight-set victory over Elizabeth Mandlik (21). Kvitova won the first set 6-1 and despite some resistance in the second, prevailed, winning it 7-5.
It was worse news for Grigor Dimitrov (31), who had to retire hurt in the third set of his match against Jason Kubler (29).
Another Australian, Jordan Thompson (28), has sealed a huge victory over world number three Stefanos Tsitsipas (24). He lost the first set in a tie-break, before winning the second 6-4 and outlasting his Greek opponent in a deciding tie-breaker.
00:11 CET - World number two and Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka (24) eased past Evgeniya Rodina (34) 6-2, 6-0 in just over an hour. She will now face Lesia Tsurenko (33) in the next round.
Elsewhere, Rebecca Peterson (27) needed just 14 minutes to make it into the weekend at Indian Wells after her opponent Shuai Zhang (34) retired hurt from their match.
23:49 CET - In an all Russian affair, world number 11 Veronika Kudermetova (25) has seen off compatriot Anna Blinkova (24) 6-3, 6-4. And, whilst we are here, let's bring you today's ATP Flashmoment of the day.
23:19 CET - Plenty more results floating in from Indian Wells as in the men's draw Emil Ruusuvuori (23) has pulled off a great result against veteran Roberto Bautista-Agut (34) in straight sets.
Elsewhere, there has been some great battles in the women's draw. Jil Teichmann (25) has seen off countrywoman Belinda Bencic (26) in three sets 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, whilst there were also wins for Anhelina Kalinina (26), who defeated young Czech star Linda Fruhvirtova (17) in a near three hour slug-fest 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Barbora Krejcikova (27) also progressed in much easier fashion with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Dayana Yastremska (22).
22:12 CET - A premature end to Botic Van De Zandschulp (27) and Ilya Ivashka's (29) with the Dutchman retiring halfway through the second set. Ivashka had won the first set 7-5 and was 3-2 up in the second when the game was called off early.
In the women's draw, Jelena Ostapenko (25) has outlasted Aliaksandra Sasnovich (28) across three sets. The Latvian world number 25 won 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.
An upset of sorts has also taken place with Lesia Tsurenko (33) downing Croatian Donna Vekic (26) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.
21:40 CET - Casper Ruud (24) is the latest player to advance at Indian Wells. The fourth seed saw off Diego Schwartzman (30) 6-2, 6-3 in one hour and 29 minutes. He will now face Cristian Garin in the next round.
21:28 CET - Cameron Norrie (27) continues his good form with a straightforward victory against Tung-Lin Wu (24) in straight sets 6-2, 6-4.
21:15 CET - Our first result of the day is in with Cristian Garin (26) easing past the higher seeded Yoshihito Nishioka (27). The Chilean player won the first 6-4 before breezing through the second to love.
20:46 CET - Indian Wells action is under way with 45 singles games set to take place on a mammoth day of action. We will bring you all the results as they happen throughout the evening.
9:30 CET - Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka (37) said his niggling injury problems were finally behind him after quarter-final runs in Rotterdam and Marseille catapulted him back into the top 100 in the world rankings.
Wawrinka returned to the tennis circuit in March 2022 after more than a year on the sidelines following two operations on his left foot.
The Swiss veteran had said after his first-round US Open exit that he was getting closer to hanging up his racket but he was a lot more optimistic after battling past Aleksandar Vukic 6-4 1-6 6-1 at Indian Wells on Thursday.
"I've been practising good so I'm feeling physically and tennis-wise good. Happy to get the win, it's an important match and hopefully I can keep going," former world number three Wawrinka told reporters after his first-round victory.
9:27 CET - Andy Murray (35) said on Thursday that at this stage of his career he measures his success by the effort he gives on the court and not the ranking points he accumulates along the way.
By that standard Murray's gutsy 6-7(5) 6-1 6-4 win over Argentina's Tomas Etcheverry at Indian Wells on Thursday was a triumph, as the Scot was forced to dig deep in the hard fought battle.
"There are certain things I would like to achieve and certain goals that I set for myself but the number one thing is to give my best effort every single day," he told reporters.
"And if I do that I'll finish my career on a high note and know that I've left it all out there regardless of which ranking I get to or which tournaments I win.
"I always said my goal was getting to the latter stages of the majors, and that's still a big goal for me and I still believe I have that in me. But also what happened in Australia was an incredible experience for me."
8:30 CET - Emma Raducanu (20) began her journey in positive fashion as she defeated Danka Kovinic (28) as she looks for redemption.
She walked on to the sun-soaked showpiece court to a loud ovation and after going 2-0 down, began to find the range with her forehand and sealed the 33-minute first set with a second service ace.
The story repeated in the second set where she again fell behind 2-0 before recovering to advance to the second round, where she will face Poland's Magda Linette.
"I'm happy I stuck in," Raducanu said in an on-court interview.
"Being a break down is difficult of course but I think mentally I just took it a point at a time."
She said she relished playing on what she called one of her favorite courts.
"I'm just so happy to have got through and hopefully play another match in front of you guys," she said.
8:23 CET - Welcome to the new Tennis Tracker for March 10th. We being the day with a clash of locals between Emma Navarro and Caty McNally.
