• No. 4 seed Kei Nishikori and No. 17 seed Jack Sock will meet in Friday’s second quarter-final. Nishikori, who defeated Donald Young on Wednesday, has dominated Americans in recent years. The World No. 5 is 29-3 against Americans since the start of the 2013 season, including a 4-0 run at the BNP Paribas Open. Nishikori has split two FedEx ATP Head 2 Head meetings with Sock. He is seeking his first semi-final in Indian Wells. • Sock is appearing in his third consecutive ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final after finishing the 2016 season strongly at Shanghai and Paris. The No. 1 American is bidding for the biggest singles win of his career after losing his first seven matches against Top...
Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios may seem like polar opposites in personalities and game styles, but the Swiss maestro believes they have more in common than fans may realise. The pair will square off on Thursday for a spot in the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open. Both have weathered challenging draws to reach the last eight in Indian Wells, with Kyrgios taking out No. 18 seed Alexander Zverev and three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic, and Federer ousting fifth seed Rafael Nadal in a highly-anticipated fourth-round clash. They've also put on flawless serving displays, with neither player dropping serve this fortnight. The high level of tennis that Kyrgios has produced this fortnight and in his semi-final run at the Abierto...
• Top 10 players and Top 2 Pablos will battle in the BNP Paribas Open quarter-finals on Thursday when No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka meets No. 8 seed Dominic Thiem and No. 21 seed Pablo Carreno Busta faces No. 27 seed Pablo Cuevas. Three of the four boast one-handed backhands (Wawrinka, Thiem and Cuevas) and all four are bidding for their first Indian Wells semi-final. • Wawrinka rallied Wednesday after lucky loser Yoshihito Nishioka served for their fourth-round match twice. The top-ranked Swiss owns a 2-1 FedEx ATP Head 2 Head record against Thiem. He is 0-2 in Indian Wells quarter-finals, falling to Novak Djokovic in 2008 and Roger Federer in 2011. Wawrinka has reached as many ATP World Tour...
• Four-time BNP Paribas Open champion Roger Federer and three-time champion Rafael Nadal will go head-to-head on Wednesday for the first time before the quarter-finals since their maiden meeting in the 2004 Miami third round. Nadal leads their 13-year rivalry 23-12 overall, 12-4 at ATP Masters 1000s, 9-8 on hard courts and 4-2 in the USA. • Federer and Nadal have met twice in singles and twice in doubles at Indian Wells. Nadal defeated Federer en route to the 2013 title after Federer beat Nadal en route to the 2012 title. Federer and Stan Wawrinka beat Nadal and Marc Lopez in 2011, but Nadal and Carlos Moya edged Federer and Yves Allegro in 2004 -- two weeks before the first...
The match-up everyone clamoured for when the BNP Paribas Open draw was announced has finally arrived: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will face off in the fourth round on Wednesday in Indian Wells. The Round of 16 contest will mark the 36th meeting of their FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry. Nadal leads the series 23-12 but their 14-year back-and-forth is far more complicated than a single record. Here are six things to know about one of tennis' greatest rivalries. 1. Federer is attempting to beat Nadal three straight times for the first time in his career, having defeated the Spaniard in the Australian Open final (2017) and Basel final (2015). 2. This is their earliest meeting since the third round of...
