INDIAN WELLS, California. – Félix Auger-Aliassime will only have gone to the Indian Wells Open. Quebec was eliminated in his first match, in the second round of the tournament, against the Dutchman Botik Van de Zanchulp.

Van De Zandschulp, 47th in the world, won 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) and 6-3. He took advantage of a very bad day by serving Auger-Aliassime to win.

Quebec fought well, saving at least five points and managed to grab the second set despite all kinds of problems. Van De Zandschulp was content with a simple game of flipping all the balls and forcing the 9th player in the world to make mistakes.

Auger-Aliassime made eight double faults against three for his opponent in addition to 43 unprovoked errors, almost double those of Van De Zandschulp. The latter will face the Serb Miomir Ketsmanovic in the round of 16.

Ketsmanovic defeated Croatia’s Marin Cilic, the 24th racket in the world, in three sets 6-7 (7), 6-3 and 7-6 (6).

Zverev out of the entrance

Alexander Zverev, the 3rd player in the world who was among the favorites for the title in Indian Wells, came out as soon as he entered the game, defeated 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2) by the American Tommy. Paul (39th) Sunday.

Three weeks after his bloodshed in Acapulco, where he was knocked out of the tournament for hitting the referee’s chair several times with his racket, he received a lenient eight-week suspension from all ATP-suspended tournaments (additional fine of 40,000 dollars in the first decision), the German was scrutinized.

Despite this great poor performance, he showed no sign of nervousness.

The scenario of the match was enough to disappoint him, however, because he served to lead 5-2 in the third set. And then we imagined him coming out of a trap match.

But Paul, who had already beaten him in their first match, was able to break out immediately, taking advantage of a sudden mess in his opponent’s service, before pushing him into the decisive game, in which he then regained his attacking tennis. first round.

The American will face the Australian Alex De Minaur (No. 29) in the next round.

Rublev and Berrettini in the third round

Seventh Andrey Rublev advanced to the third round, defeating Germany’s Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-4.

The Russian, a recent winner in Marseille and then in Dubai, will face in the next round an American, Frances Tiafoe or Brandon Nakashima (no. 28), who they will face during the day.

Rublev needed some time to enter his match, as he was 4-2 behind, before he immediately broke out and then took the opponent’s serve for the second time to win the first set.

The second was also tight. After the break and the lead with 4-3, the Russian immediately gave up his commitment, leaving his opponent to come to the surface again, before taking the lead to win in 1:46.

Matteo Beretini (no. 6) needed three sets, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, to defeat the Dane Holger Rooney, from the qualifiers.

“It was a very difficult game, even though I expected it. I think I managed to differentiate my plans. “I am very happy, because I did not feel very comfortable on the floor”, commented the Italian who nevertheless relied on his strengths, the service (14 aces) and the forward (12 winners), to win.

Shapovalov continues his journey in the double

Canadian Denis Shapovalov and his Indian teammate Rohan Bopanna defeated the eighth pair of sets, that of Britain’s Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Soares 7-6 (4) and 6-4 in the first round.

The assistants only needed one hour and 28 minutes to get through to the second round.

Murray and Soares are in 20th and 18th place respectively in the double ATP rankings. They found it difficult to serve, with only 49% (32/65) of their first serve coming into play compared to 63% (40/64) for their opponents.

In the round of 16, Shapovalov’s duo will cross swords with the experienced couple of Mexican Santiago Gonzalez (39) and French Édouard Roger-Vasselin (38).

In the women’s section of the tournament, after qualifying for the third round in the singles on Saturday, Quebec Leylah Annie Fernandez returned to the court in doubles with her partner, France Alizé Cornet.

The duo won their place in the quarterfinals by winning a tiebreak 6-2, 3-6 and 10-2 against the pair formed by Laura Sigemund and Vera Zvonareva.