Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth spherical at Indian Wells with a cushty straight-set win over Felix Auger-Aliassime.
World quantity two Alcaraz, 20, cruised to a 6-2 6-3 victory over the Canadian to arrange a gathering with Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan in California.
Italian third seed Jannik Sinner additionally progressed in straight units, beating German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 6-4.
Greek eleventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat American Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-3.
Alcaraz didn’t drop a set on his solution to successful the Indian Wells title final yr however he had been compelled to return again from a set down in his opening match in opposition to Italian Matteo Arnaldi.
He confronted no such difficulties as he hit type in opposition to the thirty first seed Auger-Aliassime.
After successful 5 successive video games to take the primary set in 32 minutes, Alcaraz carried that momentum into the second set as he clinched a right away break of serve to take agency management of the match.
Auger-Aliassime survived two break factors when trailing 3-1 to remain in rivalry, however Alcaraz sealed a formidable victory by taking his first match level on his opponent’s serve.
Upcoming opponent Marozsan, the world quantity 58, beat Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild 6-2 6-2 to progress.
Australian Open champion Sinner, 22, wanted simply 74 minutes to get previous twenty fifth seed Struff and he’ll now look ahead to a gathering with American sixteenth seed Ben Shelton or Argentina’s twenty second seed Francisco Cerundolo.
Tsitsipas, who in February dropped out of the highest 10 on the earth rankings for first time in 5 years, may face Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev within the subsequent spherical following his victory over 18th seed Tiafoe.
Rublev first should overcome Czech thirty second seed Jiri Lehecka, whom he performs afterward Sunday.