Cerundolo eases to 7-5 6-3 win over world No 10 in BNP Paribas OpenArgentinian to face Carlos Alcaraz or Grigor Dimitrov in last eight
Australian No 1 Alex de Minaur has been bundled out of the BNP Paribas Open in the round of 16 after a shock defeat to Francisco Cerundolo at Indian Wells. The Argentinian stunned an out-of-sorts De Minaur to reach the quarter-finals with a 7-5 6-3 victory on Wednesday.
De Minaur had his opportunities against the No 25 seed but could only capitalise on three of 14 break points, while Cerundolo sealed all but one of his seven to win in straight sets. The world No 10 uncharacteristically found it just as hard to find his range from the baseline with 39 unforced errors and only nine winners across the one-hour and 50-minute match.
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