Wawrinka, Thiem, Monfils Feature Monday At Indian Wells

•    Third round action in the top half of the draw at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday is headlined by No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka, No. 8 Dominic Thiem, No. 10 Gael Monfils and No. 11 David Goffin. They are the highest seeds of the 12 remaining in the top half of the draw.

•    In the first men’s match on Stadium 1, No. 29 seed Mischa Zverev looks for his second win against Thiem. Zverev won the previous meeting on grass 76 62 in the 1R of Stuttgart in June 2015. The 29-year-old German is trying to earn his seventh career Top 10 win (6-13) and second this season. He beat No. 1 Andy Murray in the 4R at the Australian Open in January. Thiem, who is 9-3 against Germans since the beginning of last year, is attempting to reach the 4R in Indian Wells for the second straight year.

•    In the next men’s match on Stadium 1, Wawrinka brings a 4-0 head-to-head record against No. 28 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, who is coming off his 400th career match win on Saturday (vs. Dolgopolov-ret.). Wawrinka is trying to snap a three-match losing streak against Germans going back to last year. Wawrinka is a two-time quarter-finalist (2008, 2011) in Indian Wells and one of two players (No. 13 Berdych) in the top half of the draw who has won an ATP Masters 1000 title.

•    In the last match of the night session, Monfils and No. 20 John Isner square off for the ninth time (tied 4-4). Isner has a 13-12 lead in sets. This is their first meeting since 2014 ATP Masters 1000  Paris where Monfils won 64 76. They played here in the 2R in 2009 and Isner won 67 61 64. Monfils reached the quarter-finals here last year, his best result, while Isner advanced to the final in 2012 (l. to Federer). He is the only player left in the top half of the draw who is a former finalist here.

•    On Stadium 2, second round doubles action features three of the top six singles players with No. 1 Andy Murray (w/Evans), No. 2 Novak Djokovic (w/Troicki) and No. 6 Rafael Nadal (w/Tomic). The lone singles match is under the lights between No. 27 Pablo Cuevas and Fabio Fognini, who has won three of the previous four ATP World Tour level meetings.

•    On Stadium 3, Japanese lucky loser Yoshihito Nishioka takes on No. 13 Berdych, who won the previous meeting, and Goffin plays No. 22 Albert Ramos-Vinolas for the first time. On Stadium 4, No. 21 Pablo Carreno Busta meets No. 16 countryman Roberto Bautista Agut (tied 1-1), and qualifiers Vasek Pospisil and Dusan Lajovic battle for the second time (Pospisil leads 1-0).

•    THIRD ROUND REMAINING BY COUNTRY: There are 18 countries represented in the third round, leading with Spain and the U.S. with five players each, followed by Germany (3), France, Japan, Serbia and Switzerland (2 each).    

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