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Djokovic, Nadal tested in California
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 17 - 03 - 2016

Defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his dominance of Philipp Kohlschreiber, winning 7-5, 7-5 in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open Tuesday.
Rafael Nadal survived a wild tiebreaker to beat Fernando Verdasco 6-0, 7-6 (9), while two-time champion Serena Williams fired seven aces in a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Kateryna Bondarenko in the fourth round.
Djokovic, seeking his fifth title in the desert, beat Kohlschreiber for the eighth time in nine career matches against the German, who had 29 unforced errors. Djokovic had triple match point leading 5-3, 40-love when he missed an easy overhead. He was up a break in the first set when he also dropped serve.
"I cannot allow myself any more to react that way in those particular circumstances," he said. "It does stay (in your mind). But it's not the first time that it happens to me, so I think that kind of experience helps."
Nadal, a three-time Indian Wells winner, saved five set points in the tiebreaker and finally closed it out on his second match point when Verdasco's backhand sailed beyond the baseline.
"Feel lucky to win the tiebreak, and at the same time I think at the end of the tiebreak I played well with not many mistakes and going for the points," Nadal said.
Verdasco owned triple set point, but frittered away his advantage with consecutive errant forehands and could only stab in the air as Nadal's crosscourt backhand whizzed by to tie it 6-all.
Verdasco's backhand error set up Nadal's first match point and his first serve was called out, but he successfully challenged it and the review showed it ticked the line, tying it 7-all.
It was tied twice more before Verdasco's double fault gave Nadal a second match point and it ended on another error. Verdasco's 19 winners were just one more than Nadal. He averaged 115 mph on his first serve to 108 for Nadal.
Nadal advanced to the fourth round against Alexander Zverev, who beat 16th-seeded Gilles Simon, 6-2, 6-2. No. 5 seed Kei Nishikori edged Steve Johnson, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6) and next plays another American, John Isner, who beat Adrian Mannarino, 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Serena hit 26 winners offset by 22 unforced errors to go with seven aces in her second Indian Wells appearance since 2001. She has yet to drop a set in three matches.
Five of the top 10 women's seeds women have been knocked out, seemingly clearing the way for Serena to win her third career title here and first since 2001.
"So far I think my consistency has been well; being aggressive has been well; everything that I've wanted to do I've kind of been doing," she said.
Serena will play defending champion Simona Halep in the quarterfinals, a year after she withdrew before their semifinal match with a knee injury. Halep beat Serena at the 2014 WTA Tour finals.
"I like how she's aggressive. She's a fighter," Serena said. "She killed me at one point, so I definitely have to be ready."
Halep advanced when Barbora Strycova retired because of illness trailing 6-3, 1-0. Also retiring was No. 9 Roberta Vinci, who trailed Magdalena Rybarilova 6-2, 2-0 when she quit.
In another all-Spanish match, Feliciano Lopez outlasted Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (5), 6-7 (10), 6-4. Dominic Thiem earned his ATP Tour-leading 22nd win of the year, beating Jack Sock 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-1.
In other women's fourth-round matches, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated 2010 winner Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-3, and Petra Kvitova defeated qualifier Nicole Gibbs 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. No. 12 Timea Bacsinszky lost to Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 6-2.


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