Aussie stuns Tsitsipas with 'unreal' upset

Stefanos Tsitsipas was beaten 7-6 (0), 4-6, 7-6 (5) by Aussie Jordan Thompson successful second-round play astatine the BNP Paribas Open astatine Indian Wells.

The second-seeded Tsitsipas had his enarthrosis taped and the wounded appeared to impact his backhand.

Jordan took vantage and attacked the Greek's backhand portion charging successful connected abbreviated balls to gain his 2nd vocation triumph implicit a top-10 player.

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He polished disconnected Tsitsipas, the Australian Open runner-up, successful 2 hours, 37 minutes.

"It's unreal. At a Masters 1000, successful the [Indian Wells] Tennis Garden here," Thompson said. "It's 1 of my favourite tournaments, I deliberation a batch of players' favourite tournaments to play. To person a triumph similar that is incredible. [I'm] truly happy."

Thompson dropped lone 2 points connected service successful the opening set, and sealed the triumph erstwhile a forehand from Tsitsipas missed by the barest of margins, with the shot ruled retired by conscionable 1 millimetre.

"I wanted to instrumentality power of my work points," Thompson said.

"Obviously, I can't bash overmuch astir his, he's a large feline and he's got a large serve. I wasn't uncovering excessively overmuch bushed determination connected instrumentality towards the extremity but snuck 1 out. I stayed assertive connected service and precise thankful that past shot went wide."

Jordan Thompson celebrates his upset triumph implicit Stefanos Tsitsipas. (Harry How/Getty Images)

Thompson volition play Chilean qualifier Alejandro Tabilo successful the circular of 32.

Elsewhere, No.3 effect Casper Ruud cruised past Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-3. Ruud raced to a 4-1 pb successful the archetypal acceptable and won the lone interruption constituent connected his service with a forehand that clipped the line.

No.10 effect Cameron Norrie precocious to the 3rd circular with a 6-2, 6-4 triumph implicit qualifier Wu Tung-Lin of Taiwan.

A fistful of seeded men fell. Jason Kubler moved connected erstwhile No.21 Grigor Dimitrov retired erstwhile trailing 2-6, 7-6 (5), 3-0. No.22 Roberto Bautista Agut mislaid to Emil Ruusuvuori, 7-6 (5), 6-2. Ilya Ivashka precocious erstwhile No.28 Botic Van de Zandschulp had to discontinue trailing 7-5, 3-2. No.29 Yoshihito Nishioka fell to qualifier Cristian Garin, 6-4, 6-0.

In women's play, No.2 Aryna Sabalenka defeated Evgeniya Rodina, 6-2, 6-0.

No.9 Belinda Bencic mislaid to Jil Teichmann, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, and No.29 Donna Vekic was beaten by Lesia Tsurenko, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.

No.11 Veronika Kudermetova defeated Anna Blinkova, 6-3, 6-4. Sixteenth-seeded Barbora Krejcikova bushed Dayana Yastremska, 6-1, 6-2. No.24 Jelena Ostapenko got by Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.

Rebecca Peterson moved connected erstwhile No.22 Zhang Shuai retired astatine 3-0 successful the archetypal set.

- Additional reporting by Brett Graham

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