INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Stefanos Tsitsipas confirmed off his spectacular athleticism and protection, leaping for overheads and rushing across the court docket to beat Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday to achieve the fourth spherical at Indian Wells.
“I am approaching these matches with dedication and willingness to simply go away all of it on the market on the court docket,” mentioned Tsitsipas, the No. 8 seed. “I wish to get on the market on the court docket and be a gladiator, and that is how I strategy each single match I get to play.”
Tsitsipas, from Greece, will face battle-tested Holger Rune after the Danish participant dug deep to outlast France’s Ugo Humbert 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 with the backing of the Stadium 1 crowd.
“I attempted to be courageous,” Rune mentioned of his play over the ultimate two video games of the match. “The vitality on this court docket was really wonderful.”
Daniil Medvedev was on court docket for simply 10 minutes earlier than his American opponent, Alex Michelsen, was pressured to retire attributable to sickness after two video games.
The Russian fifth seed has misplaced to Carlos Alcaraz within the BNP Paribas Open remaining the previous two years, and the world No. 3 is as soon as once more on the other facet of the draw.
Medvedev will subsequent face well-liked American Tommy Paul, who notched his fiftieth win at a Masters 1000 event with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Britain’s Cameron Norrie.
Tallon Griekspoor toppled Twenty ninth-seeded Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard after beautiful prime seed Alexander Zverev within the earlier spherical.
Griekspoor pounded 10 aces and broke Mpetshi Perricard’s mighty serve twice en path to the win.
Southern California native Marcos Giron got here from behind to beat Alexei Popyrin 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 in a match the place the struggling Australian transformed simply one among his 15 break level probabilities.
It’s the 31-year-old Giron’s first time reaching the fourth spherical of the event.
Reuters contributed to this report.