Indian Wells 2023 Round 1 Recap

The spherical of 128 in Indian Wells is full, and it featured one other Andy Murray match that went the gap, a few minor upsets and a few lopsided scorelines.

Elsewhere Dominic Thiem did not benefit from his wildcard, falling to the difficult Adrian Mannarino. 

Nonetheless, he no less than confirmed some indicators of his finest tennis however couldn’t depend on his forehand within the extra necessary moments as he misplaced a topsy-turvy encounter 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5).

Brandon Nakashima received the all-American battle to take out 2012 finalist John Isner, and he faces Daniil Medvedev in spherical 2.

7 of the 12 qualifiers additionally progressed within the spherical of 64, together with fortunate loser Alexie Popyrin to offer themselves an honest payday.

You may see all of the first-round outcomes beneath:

Spherical of 128 Indians Wells 2023 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Rating

Pedro Cachin
Nikoloz Basilashvili
7-5, 6-3

(Q) Taro Daniel
Roberto Carballes Baena
6-1, 7-5

Jack Draper
(Q) Leandro Riedi
6-1, 6-1

Marton Fucsovics
J.J. Wolf
1-6, 6-0, 6-3

(Q) Cristian Garin
Daniel Elahi Galan
6-4, 6-2

Richard Gasquet
(Q) Borna Gojo
6-4, 6-7(5), 6-2

Marcos Giron
(WC) Aleksandar Kovacevic
6-3, 7-5

(Q) Rinky Hijikata
Mikael Ymer
6-4, 7-5

Ugo Humbert
Bernabe Zapata Miralles
6-2, 7-6(6)

Ilya Ivashka
Roman Safiullin
6-4, 6-2

(Q) Thanasi Kokkinakis
(WC) Brandon Holt
6-4, 6-1

Jason Kubler
Lorenzo Sonego
6-4, 7-6(4)

Jiri Lehecka
Arthur Rinderknech
7-6(4), 7-5

Adrian Mannarino
(WC) Dominic Thiem
4-6, 6-4, 7-65

Pedro Martinez
Marc-Andrea Huesler
7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4

Mackenzie McDonald
Filip Krajinovic
6-3, 6-0

Alex Molcan
Albert Ramos-Vinolas
6-3, 6-2

Andy Murray
Tomas Martin Etcheverry
6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4

Brandon Nakashima
John Isner
7-6(7), 6-3

Oscar Otte
Laslo Djere
6-3, 7-5

(PR) Guido Pella
Thiago Monteiro
3-6, 7-5, 6-2

(LL) Alexei Popyrin
(Q) Zhizhen Zhang
6-4, 5-7, 6-1

Emil Ruusuvuori
Fixed Lestienne
6-4, 4-1 (RET)

Diego Schwartzman
Federico Coria
6-1, 6-2

Ben Shelton
Fabio Fognini
6-4, 6-1

(WC) Jack Sock
Gregoire Barrere
6-4, 6-2

(Q) Jan-Lennard Struff
Quentin Halys
1-6, -63, 6-3

(Q) Alejandro Tabilo
(Q) Maximilian Marterer
6-4, 6-3

Jordan Thompson
(PR) Gael Monfils
6-3, 6-1

(PR) Stan Wawrinka
(Q) Aleksandar Vukic
6-4, 1-6, 6-1

(WC) Yibing Wu
Jaume Munar
6-7(6), 6-0, 7-6(3)

(Q) Tung-Lin Wu
Alexander Bublik
6-4, 6-4

Match of the Opening Spherical

Can Andy Murray play a match that doesn’t go the gap? That appears unlikely as he’s performed in seven of them to date this motive, his most up-to-date to beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4.

This time round, Murray didn’t want to avoid wasting match factors, and whereas in earlier matches, he arguably obtained fairly fortunate to come back by, this time, he was the higher participant as he obtained to grips with the in-form Etcheverry’s sport to progress in three hours and 12 minutes.

His reward is a second-round assembly with fifteenth seed Pablo Carreno Busta, and surprisingly, they’ve by no means performed one another earlier than.

Murray is holding up bodily significantly better than I’d ever imagined, and though it’s not preferrred to need to grind out each single match what he’s doing is spectacular and it is going to be fascinating to see if he can nonetheless play effectively on grass later this yr.

Murray vs Etcheverry Highlights

Controversial Second

Tennis wouldn’t be tennis with out no less than one controversial umpiring second, and this one got here within the match between Wu Yibing and Jaume Munar.

On match level, Wu pulled off a diving volley however dropped his racket when breaking his fall; the racket then touched the web whereas the ball was nonetheless in play.

By the letter of the regulation, Munar ought to have received the purpose, and I feel the umpire ought to have enforced that rule.

Many are making the argument that Munar was nowhere close to the volley, so it doesn’t matter, however I don’t assume you can begin bringing discretion into it. What do you assume?

Spherical of 64 Matches

Which second-round matches are you trying ahead to? Let me know within the feedback.