Williams had to use to beat Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva: pushed to the limit in the first set won the tiebreak (7/2), she then punished his opponent, 56th World in the second round, 6-0.
“the first set was a bit complicated, I then found my tawny side and I started to roar,” said the world No.1.
> in 8th finals she will face Ukraine’s Kateryna Bondarenko (N.70) she has beaten twice in two confrontations.
Williams is the favorite of a tournament that has already won twice (1999, 2001) and that it was boycotting until last year, when it reached the last four, before giving up on injury, to have been the victim of racist insults from spectators
2001. While several contenders have bitten the dust Saturday as Germany’s Angelique Kerber Garbine Muguruza and Espanole, the logic was respected Sunday. the Polish Agnieszka Radwanska
has outperformed Romanian Monica Niculescu (6-2, 6-1) and the Czech Petra Kvitova overcame the Swede Johanna Larsson (6-3, 4-6, 7-5).
defending champion, the Romanian Simona Halep is still in contention after his victory against the Russian Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-4.
– Djoko loses a set –
in the men, Djokovic lost a set for her opening match against American Bjorn Fratangelo, before winning 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.
double title and world No.1 has had trouble over gambling atypical Fratangelo, resulting qualifications.
“it was not generally a great match for me, but we must accept it, this is a win, I hope the next game will be better,” he stressed the Serb who can become, especially in the absence of Roger Federer, the first to win the California tournament five times.
He will next face German Philipp Kohlschreiber (N.30), easy winner of the American Denis Kudla (6-0, 6-1).
former race winner and former world No.1, Rafael Nadal, hampered by gusty winds, has also experienced a small alert against the Luxembourgers Gilles Muller finally ruled 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
the Spaniard has also announced that it would file a complaint against Roselyne Bachelot, a former sports minister who accused him of feigning an injury in the past to serve a suspenion for doping.
Japanese Kei Nishikori, however, has easily earned his ticket to the third round over Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin (6-3, 6-3) and hopes to exceed finally, this year the stage of the 8th finals at Indian Wells.
– Three more French in the 3rd round –
Three French won their ticket to the third round, two of them at the expense of compatriots .
Adrian Mannarino outperformed Benoît Paire (6-1, 6-3) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dominated Vincent Millot, 166th worldwide and resulting qualifications (7-5, 6-1).
in the next round Mannarino, 60th in the ATP rankings and 8th finalist in 2015 at Indian Wells, will face American John Isner, 11th in the world.
Tsonga will face him as an American, Sam Querrey (N.36), winner Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker 7-6 (7/5), 6-4.
One week after having faced, and dominated the first round of the Davis Cup, Gilles Simon found the Canadian Vasek Pospisil.
the 19th World rarely comfortable in Indian Wells, lost the first set 6-1, before recovering and not concede a single set (1-6, 6-0, 6- 1).
His next opponent will be the great hope of German tennis Alexander Zverev (N.58), winner of the earlier Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
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