In a battle between two younger weapons on the ATP Tour, it was Jack Draper who prevailed on the BNP Paribas Open Thursday when he defeated #NextGenATP Swiss Leandro Riedi 6-1, 6-1 to maneuver to the verge of the Top 50 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
The 21-year-old, who competed on the 2022 Next Gen ATP Finals, was dominant all through the 57-minute encounter, putting 13 winners and committing 4 unforced errors to earn victory on his match debut.
Draper will subsequent face countryman Daniel Evans as he appears to be like to achieve the third spherical at an ATP Masters 1000 occasion for the second time. The Briton superior to the quarter-finals in Montreal final 12 months, shedding to eventual champion Pablo Carreno Busta.
Draper is up 5 spots to No. 51 within the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings following his win in opposition to Riedi, who got here via qualifying to make his ATP Masters 1000 debut. The 21-year-old Riedi is ninth within the Pepperstone Next Gen ATP Race following a powerful begin to the season which noticed him attain the second spherical in Marseille.
Stan Wawrinka earned victory on the BNP Paribas Open for the primary time since 2019 when he moved previous Australian qualifier Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 in Indian Wells.
The former World No. 3 Swiss final competed within the Californian desert 4 years in the past, falling to Roger Federer within the third spherical. He ensured he made a successful return in opposition to Vukic, recovering from a second-set dip as he hit 17 winners to e book his spot within the second spherical after one hour and 23 minutes.
Wawrinka, who arrived in Indian Wells off the again of quarter-final runs in Rotterdam and Marseille, will subsequent play Twenty sixth-seeded Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic. The 37-year-old, at present No. 96 within the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings, is making his twelfth look on the hard-court occasion, along with his finest outcome a run to the championship match in 2017.
In different motion, American Mackenzie McDonald downed Filip Krajinovic 6-3, 6-0 to set a gathering in opposition to seventh-seeded Dane Holger Rune.
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