Watch highlights as Roger Federer, Taylor Fritz, Pablo Cuevas and Hyeon Chung reach the fourth round at Indian Wells. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Getty Images
Combining power and precision with a burgeoning confidence on the big stages, inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung is through to the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open for the first time. Experienced Czech 12th seed Tomas Berdych was the 21-year-old’s latest victim on Monday night. Unlike Chung’s previous match – in which he battled for nearly three hours to get past Dusan Lajovic – he cruised past Berdych 6-4, 6-4 in 83 minutes. It is his first victory in three FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with the Czech and the first time he had even taken a set. Chung had already tasted hard-court success on a big stage this season after he became the first South Korean...
Kevin Anderson put on a serving clinic to edge past Argentine Nicolas Kicker into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. The South African seventh seed sent down 22 aces to his opponent’s one in the 7-6(1), 7-6(3) result. Anderson, the 2017 US Open runner-up, has twice reached the quarter-finals in the Californian desert (2013 and 2014). He will look to extend his perfect 3-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record against last year’s Indian Wells semi-finalist, No. 11 seed Pablo Carreno Busta (l. Wawrinka). Watch Full Match Replays The South African defeated the Spaniard in last year’s US Open semi-finals. His defeat of Kicker, No. 94 in the ATP Rankings, ended an impressive Indian Wells debut for the...
