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American Next Generation star, Taylor Fritz, made a memorable visit to the Staples Center for a Los Angeles Lakers game, where he ran into Roger Federer and Tommy Haas (View Photo) and got a tour of the NBA team’s locker room. Read More

Novak Djokovic attended a different Lakers game and had an epic hangout session with Kobe Bryant and Alexander Ovechkin. View Photo

The World No. 1 Serb also assisted in the unveiling of a mural in his honour at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. View Photo

Three-time BNP Paribas Open champion Rafael Nadal took time out for a round of golf in Indian Wells. Watch

Doubles stars Marcelo Melo, John Peers, Colin Fleming, Nicholas Monroe, Fabrice Martin and coaches Miles Maclagan and Daniel Vallverdu joined Ross Hutchins, Wayne Bryan and journalists on the practice courts for the second edition of the ATP World Tour Media Doubles Showdown.

Dusan Lajovic and Alexandr Dolgopolov took part in Kids’ Day activities. Watch

Grigor Dimitrov visited The Container Yard and was given a tour by local artist, Hector, who has been making street art in Los Angeles since 1984. 

Fans at the BNP Paribas Open got to know Borna Coric, Alexander Zverev, Hyeon Chung, Taylor Fritz, Kyle Edmund, Jared Donaldson and Frances Tiafoe at the #NextGen launch. View Photo

Coric also got to meet his favourite boxer, Mike Tyson, after practice. Watch

American teen Jared Donaldson welcomed us into his California home. Watch

Nenad Zimonjic served up autographs and a special meet-and-greet with local fans. View Photo

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Alexandr Dolgopolov (view photo) and Sam Querrey were among players to delight fans in suite visits, while Fabrice Martin met with the tournament ball kids (view photo), and Pablo Carreno Busta and Gael Monfils participated in autograph signings with official tournament hotel guests.

Would you like the best-selling Vasek Pospisil Chicken Panini? The Canadian visited the Sports Bar at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden to meet the chef & try it himself. View Photo

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic skipped the drama on Tuesday and brought solid tennis all match long against Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber. The result: a 7-5, 7-5 win at the BNP Paribas Open.

Djokovic won nearly 70 percent of his first-serve points and broke the German four times. The Serb will next face Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in a quarter-final matchup.

Rafael Nadal has avenged his shock defeat from this year’s Australian Open, turning the tables on compatriot Fernando Verdasco 6-0, 7-6(9) to reach the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday.

The fourth seed raced through the opening set without conceding a game before his fellow left-handed Spaniard conjured his first break of serve to get on the board. It marked the first of four consecutive breaks at the start of the second set before play continued on serve to the tie-break.

Verdasco looked to be taking the match into a deciding set when he held three set points at 6/3 in the tie-break. Nadal, though, reeled off four straight points to bring up a match point. Verdasco rallied to bring up a further two set points before Nadal closed it out on his second match point to secure a fourth-round meeting with German teenager Alexander Zverev. It will be their first clash.

The Spaniard had fallen in his most recent clash with Verdasco – a five-set boilover in the opening round at Melbourne Park in January. His win in Indian Wells takes his FedEx Head2Head record against his countryman to 14-3.

Back-to-back triumphs over Top 30 players at the BNP Paribas Open have #NextGen star Alexander Zverev’s confidence in the zone. The German’s upset of No. 16 seed Gilles Simon sets up a fourth-round crack at three-time Indian Wells champion, fourth seed Rafael Nadal.

“Rafa, he’s one of the greatest in the sport ever, winning 14 slams,” Zverev said. “He’s probably one of the greatest fighters ever, so it would be a big honour to play against someone like him.”

Still only 18, Zverev is under no illusions as to how far he must still improve before he can match it on a daily basis with the ATP World Tour’s big guns. Under the guidance of fitness coach Jez Green he is carefully adding the necessary power and endurance.

“I have been working on that for the past two years now with Jez,” Zverev said. “I think we did great in the past few years, but I think there is a lot more work that has to be done from the physical part, as well.

“I think that’s probably one of the biggest parts of the game these days. Playing on a daily basis with those kind of guys, with the big guys, you have to be really, really strong.”

In a Davis Cup tie against the Czech Republic last week, Zverev learnt plenty. He bowed in a gruelling four-hour, 20-minute five-set duel to Tomas Berdych, the World No. 7 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. Two days later, he was soundly beaten in straight sets in the reverse singles, falling to Lukas Rosol.

Berdych – a player who also works with Green – later predicted the young German would be a future World No. 1. “We have been really good friends with him,” Zverev said. “We practise quite a lot. He gives me quite good advice, as well. We’re really kind of close to each other.

“So if someone like him says something like that it’s always a big honour. I know that I still have a lot of work ahead of me. As I said, I think it’s a long way there.”

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Alexander Zverev is making winning on the ATP World Tour as a teenager look routine this week at the BNP Paribas Open.

#NextGen star Zverev, 18, earned his second win over a Top 30 player in as many matches on Tuesday, beating the No. 16 seed Gilles Simon of France, 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and seven minutes. On Sunday, Zverev dismissed the No. 23 seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

“I had a great day today,” Zverev said. “Someone like Gilles, if you don’t hit him off the court he’s going to be tough to beat. He’s going to be running and fighting all day. So, I knew what I had to do, and I think I did it pretty well.”

Zverev won 80 per cent of his first-serve points, hit 14 winners to 13 unforced errors and had 11 break points overall, five of which he converted. Simon, meanwhile, landed about half of his first serves and hit more than three times as many unforced errors, 32, than winners, 10.

“Beating someone like Gilles 6-2, 6-2 is something that gives me a lot of confidence,” Zverev said. 

The unseeded German now advances to the fourth round, where he’ll face a Spaniard, either Rafael Nadal or Fernando Verdasco.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori matched his best showing in Indian Wells on Tuesday. Nishikori, the No. 5 seed, fought off American Steve Johnson 7-6(6), 7-6(5) to move into the fourth round. Nishikori also made the fourth round in the desert last year but lost to Feliciano Lopez in straight sets. Nishikori will next play either American John Isner or Adrian Mannarino of France.

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