Wells Masters

INDIAN WELLS - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is out of the Indian Wells Masters tournament after losing 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-1 to world number 109 Taro Daniel of Japan in the second round on Sunday.

Daniel won after two hours and 28 minutes of play.

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World number four Grigor Dimitrov slumped to a shock 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-3 defeat to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in his opening match of the ATP Indian Wells Masters on March 10.

INDIAN WELLS - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic will be seeded in the opening round of the Indian Wells Masters.

The five-time Indian Wells champion, who is in the US to train and recover from an elbow injury, will face a qualifier in the second round and could play Japanese Kei Nishikori in the third round.

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World number one Novak Djokovic roared home in a 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-0 win over Andy Murray on April 5 to claim a fifth Miami Masters title.
 

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep was defeated on Thursday evening by world's currently best ranked player Serena Williams in the semi-finals of the women's singles event of the 5,381,235-dollar WTA Miami Open 2015 tournament.

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Romanian tennis player Simona Halep (No.3) on Wednesday advanced to the semi-finals of the women's singles event of the 5,381,235-US dollar WTA Indian Wells Masters, after defeating Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

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INDIAN WELLS - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland have got off to a winning start at the Indian Wells Masters tournament by beating the Swiss pair of Roger Federer and Michael Lammer 6-3, 3-6, 11-9 early Sunday.

INDIAN WELLS - Indian Wells title holder Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, has got off to a winning start at the Masters tournament by beating Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-1, 6-3 in the second round early Sunday.

Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov was defeated in the first round of the men's doubles competition at the Indian Wells Masters tournament on Friday.

Dimitrov and his US partner Mardy Fish lost to the Spanish duo David Ferrer and Fernando Verdasco with 3:6, 4:6.

INDIAN WELLS - The world's number one tennis player Novak Djokovic will begin his bid to defend the BNP Paribas Open title in Indian Wells by taking on Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus that previously played Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic who decided to pull out of the match at 6-3, 1-1.

As the first seed, Djokovic skipped the first round.