Aussie Thompson takes down Stefanos Tsitsipas at BNP Paribas Open

Stefanos Tsitsipas was beaten 76 0 46 76 5 by Aussie Jordan Thompson in secondround play at the BNP Paribas Open on FridayThe secondseeded Tsitsipas had his shoulder taped and the injury appeared to affect his backhandJordan took advantage and attacked the Greeks backhand while charging in on short balls to earn his second career win over a top10 playerHe polished off Tsitsipas the Australian Open runnerup in two hours 37 minutesI felt confident even playing against a top10 player I felt comfortable in my own skin and what I was doing and just snuck out a win Jordan said It was a great feeling You could see it on my face at the end of the match I was overcome with joyRain delayed play at Indian Wells Tennis Garden and a few fans jumped into action to help dry the hardcourtsNo 3 seed Casper Ruud cruised past Diego Schwartzman 62 63 Ruud raced to a 41 lead in the first set and won the only break point on his serve with a forehand that clipped the lineAlso readAndy Murray pulls out another 3set victory at Indian WellsNo 10 seed Cameron Norrie advanced to the third round with a 62 64 win over qualifier Wu TungLin of TaiwanA handful of seeded men fell Jason Kubler moved on when No 21 Grigor Dimitrov retired trailing 26 76 5 30 No 22 Roberto Bautista Agut lost to Emil Ruusuvuori 76 5 62 Ilya Ivashka advanced when No 28 Botic Van de Zandschulp had to retire trailing 75 32 No 29 Yoshihito Nishioka fell to qualifier Cristian Garin 64 60In womens play No 2 Aryna Sabalenka defeated Evgeniya Rodina 62 60No 6 Coco Gauff routed Cristina Bucsa 62 64No 9 Belinda Bencic lost to Jil Teichmann 36 63 63 and No 29 Donna Vekic was beaten by Lesia Tsurenko 26 62 62No 11 Veronika Kudermetova defeated Anna Blinkova 63 64 Sixteenthseeded Barbora Krejcikova beat Dayana Yastremska 61 62 No 24 Jelena Ostapenko got by Aliaksandra Sasnovich 75 36 62Rebecca Peterson moved on when No 22 Zhang Shuai retired at 30 in the first setThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever