INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Britain’s Jack Draper beat No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz in straight units Wednesday, leaving Ben Shelton because the lone American man to achieve the quarterfinals on the 2025 BNP Paribas Open.
Fritz, a previous champion at Indian Wells in 2022, misplaced to Draper 7-5, 6-4.
“I performed a extremely high-level match,” mentioned Draper, a US Open semifinalist. “I believe I struggled right here prior to now with my serve, however I assumed that I served nice right now, and I believe that put a whole lot of strain on him.”
Up subsequent for Draper is Shelton, who turned the youngest American man since Andy Roddick in 2004 to achieve the ultimate eight within the California desert by beating Brandon Nakashima.
The 22-year-old Shelton cruised within the second set of a 7-6 (6), 6-1 victory. After a 61-minute opening set, he took a 5-0 lead in simply 20 minutes within the deciding set.
The Eleventh-seeded Shelton hasn’t dropped a set in 5 profession matches towards Nakashima, a 23-year-old American.
Second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz hasn’t dropped a set on his option to the quarterfinals. The four-time Grand Slam champion breezed to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over No. 14 seed Grigor Dimitrov.
Alcaraz, who’s bidding to change into the third man to win the occasion 3 times in a row after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, dealt with the blustery situations much better than his opponent.
Dimitrov was displaying indicators of fatigue from his three-hour third-round match earlier within the week and will do little to cease the world No. 3.
“In the present day with the situations, it was actually robust for us each. I needed to survive,” Alcaraz advised the ATP Tour. “I at all times say in these situations, you must survive it doesn’t matter what. I am very blissful that I used to be in a position to play lengthy rallies. I received a great rhythm, even with the situations, so I am simply actually blissful to get by way of.”
Alcaraz didn’t face a break level within the first set as Dimitrov scraped collectively a handful of winners towards greater than a dozen unforced errors.
Alcaraz dropped solely 4 of his first-serve factors within the second set and snuffed out the three break level probabilities Dimitrov had within the fifth recreation.
He subsequent faces Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo, who topped Australian Alex De Minaur 7-5, 6-3.
The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this report.