Seventh seed Dominic Thiem improved to 4-4 on the season with a 6-4, 7-5 win against Aussie Jordan Thompson on Saturday evening at the BNP Paribas Open.

The Austrian broke in the fifth game of the opener, and in the first and 11^th games of the second set. Thiem, who reached the 2017 quarter-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 event, is now 9-6 in Indian Wells.

“A few upsets [today]. It’s always tricky conditions here,” Thiem said. “But I was practising really good, and the match today was completely decent. I’m happy to get a win after some rough weeks lately, and I’m really looking forwrad to the match on Monday against Gilles.”

The right-hander is looking to bolster his hard-court resume, and he’ll have another opportunity against Frenchman Gilles Simon in the third round. Simon beat Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4.

Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic continued his record-setting Indian Wells. The 40-year-old improved to 3-0 against countryman Borna Coric, advancing 6-4, 7-6(2).

Read More: Karlovic Is Welcoming His 40s With More Records

The 6’10” right-hander will next face India’s No. 1 Prajnesh Gunneswaran, who won his second Masters 1000 match by upsetting 17^th seed Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 6-4, 6-7(6), 7-6(4).

Read More: 5 Things To Know About Gunneswaran

Basilashvili, a two-time ATP 500 titlist, hit 10 aces but also 11 double faults. The 29-year-old Gunneswaran, No. 97 in the ATP Rankings, was 1-0 in ATP Tour matches before Indian Wells.

Ivo Karlovic is finished dodging the age milestones. When he turned 30, the Croatian felt a bit depressed.

But Karlovic, who turned the big 4-0 last week, is welcoming the new decade – and age-related accomplishments – with a wide grin.

“Obviously 40s are the new 30s so I’m young again. I like it,” the light-hearted Croatian said on Saturday at the BNP Paribas Open.

Karlovic was in a jovial mood: It was the first weekend of the season’s maiden ATP Masters 1000, and his name was still in the draw.

The 6’10” right-hander became the oldest Masters 1000 winner in series history (since 1990) earlier this week, and on Saturday, he reached the third round with a 6-4, 7-6(2) win against countryman Borna Coric, the 11^th seed who reached the semi-finals here last year (l. to Federer).

“Every week I am the oldest at something, so I don’t know. Next week it will be the oldest ever to walk without implants in his hip,” he said, smiling and referencing the recent hip replacement surgeries on Tour, including Bob Bryan’s.

“Obviously it is nice that I’m still doing this, which I love, so hopefully I can continue much longer. But if not, it’s also good.”

Twelve months ago, Karlovic looked closer to retirement than to setting age records. He was almost outside the Top 100 (No. 80) and, at 39, questioned why he was still playing.

Every time he left home and his wife, Alsi, and two children – Jada, 7; Noah, 19 months – he debated walking back inside the house.

“They could not travel that much with me, and then always when I would leave it was horrible. They were sad, and I was sad, and I just didn’t really want to do it that much,” he said.

Karlovic fell to No. 138 in September, but he finished 2018 at No. 100, behind an ATP Challenger Tour title in Calgary. To start 2019, he made his 19^th tour-level final at the Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune.

“Now everything is better. When you begin to win more, everything’s good,” he said. “I know that I will not continue forever so I’m trying to squeeze as much as I can.”

As he reaches advanced tennis age, a thing or two has changed. For instance, his nickname with some was “Giant” but now it’s “Grandpa”.

Other details about his career, however, remain unchanged. He still has aches. “Obviously there’s always issues with my knee, shoulder, back, elbow. I can go on but it’s all good,” he said.

And he’s still hitting aces. He hit 20 more against Coric, bringing his career tally to 13,273. Only once does Karlovic remember not hitting an ace in a match – a 7-6(8), 6-1 loss to Gael Monfils at the 2008 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.

The 40-year-old has other worries now, though. He wishes he had a two-handed backhand, but admits it’s too late to switch. So in the final year or two or three of his record-setting career, Karlovic will try to hone a “razor blade” backhand slice.

It will be the final project in a career that’s entertained – and surprised – even the one breaking the records.

Australian Nick Kyrgios arrived at the BNP Paribas Open fresh off an impressive run to the title at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC, where he defeated World No. 2 Rafael Nadal, former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka and reigning Nitto ATP Finals champion Alexander Zverev. Based on his level, it appeared Kyrgios could challenge anyone across the net from him.

But Kyrgios could not beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber on Saturday. Kohlschreiber defeated the 31st seed 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 14 minutes, evening their FedEx ATP Head2Head series at 1-1.

Entering the week, Kohlschreiber had not won a match, outside of Davis Cup, since the first round of the Australian Open. But he has dropped only 12 games en route to the third round, after also defeating in-form Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Kohlschreiber is into the third round at Indian Wells for the 10th time. Last year’s quarter-finalist could face top seed Novak Djokovic, who begins his tournament Saturday evening against home favourite Bjorn Fratangelo. While Kyrgios has won both of his FedEx ATP Head2Head matches against Djokovic, the Serbian leads Kohlschreiber 8-1 in their rivalry, including a 3-0 record at the first ATP Masters 1000 event of the year.

In the same section of the draw, 18th seed Gael Monfils battled past Argentine Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in one hour and 59 minutes. The Frenchman advances to face Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who ousted 15th seed Marco Cecchinato 6-4, 6-2.

Monfils is in good form, having lifted his eighth ATP Tour trophy at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. The 32-year-old was also impressive in reaching the semi-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, another ATP 500 event.

Monfils lost just six service points in the deciding set against Mayer, taking advantage of the Argentine’s low first-serve percentage (29%) to reach the third round in Indian Wells for his fifth straight appearance.

Since playing in the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals, Borna Coric has only climbed the ATP Rankings. He started 2018 at No. 48 but finished the season at No. 12. Where will he finish 2019?

Coric, who faces countryman Ivo Karlovic on Saturday at the BNP Paribas Open, sat down with ATPTour.com to talk about his tennis racquet stringing skills (nonexistent), how good of a cook he is (OK) and why he couldn’t wait to meet Mike Tyson (respect).

I missed a flight?
When I was coming to Toronto [in July], I missed a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto and I needed to stay there for one night… Our flight from Zagreb to Frankfurt was delayed for two and a half hours, and this flight was right after two hours, so we just couldn’t make it.

I lost something important?
I need to ask my coach. I have a pretty big team, and they always follow me around so they pick up things that I lose, which is a lot.

But I really take care of my things, which are very important. I lose many non-important things, maybe T-shirts or sweatbands or something. But important stuff I don’t lose.

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I paid money to rent a tennis court or buy tennis balls?
Ten years ago, when I was 12 years old and I was still playing in my hometown and we needed to pay for the courts… It was a national tennis centre in Zagreb… It was maybe 10€.

I strung a tennis racquet?
Never.

I cooked for myself and others?
I don’t cook often. I do cook sometimes, like eggs for breakfast. But that’s the only thing that I know how to cook, to be honest, and some pasta. Last time was probably when I was in Monte-Carlo, when I was practising in February. I was practising there for like seven days, I was there by myself in this one apartment so I needed to cook in the morning.

They were OK. I do alright eggs, scrambled. It’s not tough, obviously, but I do alright. I just put a little prosciutto on it, and that’s it.

I met a childhood idol?
Indian Wells 2016, Mike Tyson… [As a kid] I was watching his fights and I just find him very entertaining, I loved the way he was fighting. It was really cool. I always wanted to meet him.

Watch: Coric Meets Tyson In Indian Wells