Indian Wells 2023 Round 1 Recap

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The spherical of 128 in Indian Wells is full, and it featured one other Andy Murray match that went the gap, a few minor upsets and a few lopsided scorelines.

Elsewhere Dominic Thiem did not profit from his wildcard, falling to the difficult Adrian Mannarino.

Nonetheless, he at the least confirmed some indicators of his finest tennis however couldn’t depend on his forehand within the extra vital moments as he misplaced a topsy-turvy encounter 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5).

Brandon Nakashima received the all-American battle to take out 2012 finalist John Isner, and he faces Daniil Medvedev in spherical 2.

7 of the 12 qualifiers additionally progressed within the spherical of 64, together with fortunate loser Alexie Popyrin to present themselves an honest payday.

You’ll be able to see all of the first-round outcomes under:

Spherical of 128 Indians Wells 2023 Outcomes

Winner	Loser	Rating
Pedro Cachin	Nikoloz Basilashvili	7-5, 6-3
(Q) Taro Daniel	Roberto Carballes Baena	6-1, 7-5
Jack Draper	(Q) Leandro Riedi	6-1, 6-1
Marton Fucsovics	J.J. Wolf	1-6, 6-0, 6-3
(Q) Cristian Garin	Daniel Elahi Galan	6-4, 6-2
Richard Gasquet	(Q) Borna Gojo	6-4, 6-7(5), 6-2
Marcos Giron	(WC) Aleksandar Kovacevic	6-3, 7-5
(Q) Rinky Hijikata	Mikael Ymer	6-4, 7-5
Ugo Humbert	Bernabe Zapata Miralles	6-2, 7-6(6)
Ilya Ivashka	Roman Safiullin	6-4, 6-2
(Q) Thanasi Kokkinakis	(WC) Brandon Holt	6-4, 6-1
Jason Kubler	Lorenzo Sonego	6-4, 7-6(4)
Jiri Lehecka	Arthur Rinderknech	7-6(4), 7-5
Adrian Mannarino	(WC) Dominic Thiem	4-6, 6-4, 7-65
Pedro Martinez	Marc-Andrea Huesler	7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4
Mackenzie McDonald	Filip Krajinovic	6-3, 6-0
Alex Molcan	Albert Ramos-Vinolas	6-3, 6-2
Andy Murray	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4
Brandon Nakashima	John Isner	7-6(7), 6-3
Oscar Otte	Laslo Djere	6-3, 7-5
(PR) Guido Pella	Thiago Monteiro	3-6, 7-5, 6-2
(LL) Alexei Popyrin	(Q) Zhizhen Zhang	6-4, 5-7, 6-1
Emil Ruusuvuori	Fixed Lestienne	6-4, 4-1 (RET)
Diego Schwartzman	Federico Coria	6-1, 6-2
Ben Shelton	Fabio Fognini	6-4, 6-1
(WC) Jack Sock	Gregoire Barrere	6-4, 6-2
(Q) Jan-Lennard Struff	Quentin Halys	1-6, -63, 6-3
(Q) Alejandro Tabilo	(Q) Maximilian Marterer	6-4, 6-3
Jordan Thompson	(PR) Gael Monfils	6-3, 6-1
(PR) Stan Wawrinka	(Q) Aleksandar Vukic	6-4, 1-6, 6-1
(WC) Yibing Wu	Jaume Munar	6-7(6), 6-0, 7-6(3)
(Q) Tung-Lin Wu	Alexander Bublik	6-4, 6-4

Match of the Opening Spherical

Can Andy Murray play a match that doesn’t go the gap? That appears unlikely as he’s performed in seven of them to this point this purpose, his most up-to-date to beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4.

This time round, Murray didn’t want to avoid wasting match factors, and whereas in earlier matches, he arguably received fairly fortunate to come back by means of, this time, he was the higher participant as he received to grips with the in-form Etcheverry’s recreation to progress in three hours and 12 minutes.

His reward is a second-round assembly with fifteenth seed Pablo Carreno Busta, and surprisingly, they’ve by no means performed one another earlier than.

Murray is holding up bodily a lot better than I’d ever imagined, and though it’s not superb to need to grind out each single match what he’s doing is spectacular and will probably be attention-grabbing to see if he can nonetheless play effectively on grass later this yr.

Murray vs Etcheverry Highlights

Controversial Second

Tennis wouldn’t be tennis with out at the least one controversial umpiring second, and this one got here within the match between Wu Yibing and Jaume Munar.

On match level, Wu pulled off a diving volley however dropped his racket when breaking his fall; the racket then touched the online whereas the ball was nonetheless in play.

By the letter of the legislation, Munar ought to have received the purpose, and I believe the umpire ought to have enforced that rule.

Many are making the argument that Munar was nowhere close to the volley, so it doesn’t matter, however I don’t assume you can begin bringing discretion into it. What do you assume?