Argentinian tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo (20th) defeated Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(5) and advanced to the third round of the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. According to the Argentinian News Agency, the 27-year-old racket, who had just won the Argentina Open less than a month ago, defeated the Frenchman ranked 111th in the ATP rankings. The match, which lasted 2 hours and 29 minutes, was played on court 5 of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. In a closely contested start, the Argentine took control of the game's rhythm in the crucial moments of the first set, in which he only needed one break to win it 6-4. In the second set, Cerúndolo managed to break his opponent's serve in the third game. However, when serving for the match at 5-4, he conceded it with a double fault, and from then on, the set became an uphill battle for him, with Bonzi winning it 7-5. In the third set, the Frenchman continued his victorious run, but was broken at 2-0 by the Argentine, who got back into a match that was eventually decided in Cerúndolo's favor in the tiebreak. Thus, the Argentine advanced to the third round of this Indian Wells Masters, where he will face British player Jack Draper, who simultaneously defeated Spanish player Roberto Bautista Agut 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. This Saturday, his brother Juan Manuel will make his debut against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech, as will his compatriot Sebastián Báez, who will face Czech Jiri Lehecka.
