Kayla Day
(March 10, 2017) American teenagers Taylor Fritz and Kayla Day scored match wins at the BNP Paribas Open on Friday.
The 17-year-old Kayla Day, reigning U.S. Open Girls’ champion defeated 32nd seed and recent Australian Open semifinalist Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. The 35-year-old Croatian veteran Lucic-Baroni served for the match at 5-3 in the third set, but the teen who entered the main draw with a wildcard won the next four games to claim her first win over a Top 30 player.
“It feels amazing,” said Day after the win. “I can’t describe (it). I’m so jittery right now. I told myself to keep fighting.”
“This means a lot to me,” Day said in her news conference. “I was really grateful to get offered this wildcard into the tournament, and it really means a lot that I can be able to see that I can play with some of the best players in the world.”
The next match will give Day an even bigger challenge when she takes on No. 7 Garbine Muguruza.
“I think it was a difficult match,” the French Open champion said to media. “I think she’s very talented and she can hit some critical shots and she can be tricky.”
Taylor Fritz (c)USTA/Pete Staples
World No. 53, 19-year-old Taylor Fritz beat Benoit Paire 6-3, 6-2 in the first round.
“I always think I play well here,” said the Californian Fritz. “This is where I’m from. I have played in Indian Wells since I was, like, eight years old probably. I have come down here for tournaments. Just being from San Diego and having a lot of family that lives out here in the desert, it’s like a second home to me.
“I have been telling everyone that I think I have been playing my best tennis ever this week. It’s been going really well in practice, and I just hope that I can kind of just bring that onto the court in my next match.”
Fritz will take on sixth seed Marin Cilic in the second round. “If I’m serving well, I’ll be in any match,” he noted.
BNP PARIBAS OPEN – INDIAN WELLS, USA
$7,913,405 (ATP)
$7,699,423 (WTA)
6-19 MARCH 2017
RESULTS – MARCH 10, 2017
Men’s
Singles – First Round
[WC] T. Fritz (USA) d B. Paire (FRA) 63 62
M. Jaziri (TUN) d N. Mahut (FRA) 63 62
[Q] H. Laaksonen (SUI) d B. Coric (CRO) 36 64 62
M. Youzhny (RUS) d D. Medvedev (RUS) 64 64
J. Struff (GER) d [Q] S. Giraldo (COL) 63 64
D. Young (USA) d [WC] S. Kozlov (USA) 75 76(5)
J. Vesely (CZE) d R. Olivo (ARG) 64 26 61
D. Evans (GBR) d D. Brown (GER) 61 61
G. Pella (ARG) d G. Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 46 75 62
P. Herbert (FRA) d T. Bellucci (BRA) 76(5) 67(1) 63
K. Anderson (RSA) d [Q] F. Gaio (ITA) 61 64
S. Robert (FRA) d D. Sela (ISR) 64 64
H. Zeballos (ARG) d [Q] M. Copil (ROU) 67(5) 76(2) 64
F. Bagnis (ARG) d [Q] J. Benneteau (FRA) 57 64 62
F. Delbonis (ARG) d A. Kuznetsov (RUS) 63 64
K. Edmund (GBR) d G. Elias (POR) 61 63
Men’s
Doubles – First Round
D. Evans (GBR) / A. Murray (GBR) d [5] F. Lopez (ESP) / M. Lopez (ESP) 63 16 10-6
N. Djokovic (SRB) / V. Troicki (SRB) d R. Bopanna (IND) / P. Cuevas (URU) 26 63 10-7
R. Nadal (ESP) / B. Tomic (AUS) d P. Carreno Busta (ESP) / J. Sousa (POR) 64 76(7)
A. Zverev (GER) / M. Zverev (GER) d P. Kohlschreiber (GER) / D. Thiem (AUT) 76(4) 64
T. Huey (PHI) / M. Mirnyi (BLR) d G. Dimitrov (BUL) / S. Wawrinka (SUI) 64 36 10-3
S. Johnson (USA) / V. Pospisil (CAN) d M. Matkowski (POL) / A. Peya (AUT) 36 64 11-9
R. Bautista Agut (ESP) / F. Verdasco (ESP) d [PR] T. Berdych (CZE) / P. Petzschner (GER) 76(5) 46 10-3
Women’s
Singles – Second Round
[3] Ka. Pliskova (CZE) d M. Puig (PUR) 16 64 64
[5] D. Cibulkova (SVK) d J. Ostapenko (LAT) 64 36 63
[7] G. Muguruza (ESP) d K. Flipkens (BEL) 62 63
[8] S. Kuznetsova (RUS) d J. Larsson (SWE) 76(3) 64
[10] E. Svitolina (UKR) d Q. Wang (CHN) 36 63 76(3)
[11] J. Konta (GBR) d H. Watson (GBR) 64 64
[15] T. Bacsinszky (SUI) d M. Niculescu (ROU) 75 62
[17] B. Strycova (CZE) d S. Errani (ITA) 64 57 62
[18] K. Bertens (NED) d B. Bencic (SUI) 62 62
[19] A. Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d [Q] A. Kontaveit (EST) 64 64
[21] C. Garcia (FRA) d [LL] E. Rodina (RUS) 63 63
[24] D. Gavrilova (AUS) d Y. Wickmayer (BEL) 62 76(5)
[26] R. Vinci (ITA) d M. Brengle (USA) 76(5) 64
[29] I. Begu (ROU) d L. Chirico (USA) 61 75
[WC] K. Day (USA) d [32] M. Lucic-Baroni (CRO) 64 57 75
Kr. Pliskova (CZE) d [33] D. Kasatkina (RUS) 60 63
Women’s
Doubles – First Round
T. Bacsinszky (SUI) / M. Lucic-Baroni (CRO) d [8] A. Spears (USA) / K. Srebotnik (SLO) 76(5) 64
A. Klepac (SLO) / M. Martínez Sánchez (ESP) d [WC] S. Rogers (USA) / C. Vandeweghe (USA) 61 16 10-7
L. Hradecka (CZE) / K. Siniakova (CZE) d G. Dabrowski (CAN) / H. Watson (GBR) 46 63 10-1
S. Aoyama (JPN) / Z. Yang (CHN) d [WC] A. Barty (AUS) / C. Dellacqua (AUS) 64 26 10-4
ORDER OF PLAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017
STADIUM 1 start 11:00 am
WTA – A. Petkovic (GER) vs [2] A. Kerber (GER)
ATP – F. Fognini (ITA) vs [7] J. Tsonga (FRA)
WTA – J. Jankovic (SRB) vs [12] V. Williams (USA)
ATP – [3] S. Wawrinka (SUI) vs P. Lorenzi (ITA)
Not Before 7:00 pm
ATP – [1] A. Murray (GBR) vs [Q] V. Pospisil (CAN)
Not Before 8:30 pm
WTA – [20] C. Vandeweghe (USA) vs L. Safarova (CZE)
STADIUM 2 start 11:00 am
ATP – J. Chardy (FRA) vs [8] D. Thiem (AUT)
ATP – [LL] M. Kukushkin (KAZ) vs [20] J. Isner (USA)
ATP – [WC] B. Fratangelo (USA) vs [13] T. Berdych (CZE)
WTA – [WC] D. Vekic (CRO) vs [4] S. Halep (ROU)
Not Before 6:00 pm
ATP – [WC] N. Kyrgios (AUS) / N. Zimonjic (SRB) vs [2] B. Bryan (USA) / M. Bryan (USA)
STADIUM 3 start 11:00 am
ATP – [19] I. Karlovic (CRO) vs [LL] Y. Nishioka (JPN)
WTA – [9] M. Keys (USA) vs [Q] M. Duque-Mariño (COL)
ATP – A. Dolgopolov (UKR) vs [28] P. Kohlschreiber (GER)
ATP – [10] G. Monfils (FRA) vs [Q] D. King (BAR)
WTA – [14] E. Vesnina (RUS) vs S. Rogers (USA)
STADIUM 4 start 11:00 am
WTA – [Q] M. Linette (POL) vs [13] C. Wozniacki (DEN)
ATP – [11] D. Goffin (BEL) vs K. Khachanov (RUS)
WTA – [6] A. Radwanska (POL) vs [Q] S. Sorribes Tormo (ESP)
ATP – [27] P. Cuevas (URU) vs M. Klizan (SVK)
WTA – L. Davis (USA) vs [22] A. Sevastova (LAT)
STADIUM 5 start 11:00 am
ATP – F. Mergea (ROU) / A. Qureshi (PAK) vs [7] I. Dodig (CRO) / M. Granollers (ESP)
WTA – [28] K. Mladenovic (FRA) vs A. Beck (GER)
ATP – [Q] D. Lajovic (SRB) vs [30] F. Lopez (ESP)
WTA – [Q] V. Lepchenko (USA) vs [25] T. Babos (HUN)
STADIUM 6 start 11:00 am
WTA – [23] C. Suárez Navarro (ESP) vs K. Siniakova (CZE)
ATP – G. Muller (LUX) / S. Querrey (USA) vs [WC] J. del Potro (ARG) / L. Paes (IND)
WTA – [16] S. Stosur (AUS) vs J. Goerges (GER)
ATP – A. Mannarino (FRA) vs [16] R. Bautista Agut (ESP)
ATP – [1] P. Herbert (FRA) / N. Mahut (FRA) vs J. Isner (USA) / J. Sock (USA)
STADIUM 7 start 11:00 am
WTA – K. Bondarenko (UKR) / H. Chan (TPE) vs L. Arruabarrena (ESP) / C. Liang (CHN)
WTA – N. Osaka (JPN) vs [30] S. Zhang (CHN)
ATP – [21] P. Carreno Busta (ESP) vs [Q] P. Gojowczyk (GER)
ATP – [29] M. Zverev (GER) vs J. Sousa (POR)
ATP – D. Nestor (CAN) / E. Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs [4] J. Murray (GBR) / B. Soares (BRA)
STADIUM 9 start 11:00 am
WTA – [27] Y. Putintseva (KAZ) vs P. Parmentier (FRA)
ATP – J. Rojer (NED) / H. Tecau (ROU) vs M. Cilic (CRO) / N. Mektic (CRO)
WTA – [Q] S. Peng (CHN) vs [31] A. Konjuh (CRO)
ATP – D. Dzumhur (BIH) vs [22] A. Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
STADIUM 8 start 3:00 pm
WTA – [4] S. Mirza (IND) / B. Strycova (CZE) vs S. Errani (ITA) / A. Rosolska (POL)
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