INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Canada’s Vasek Pospisil is moving on to the second round at the BNP Paribas Open. The 26-year-old Pospisil, ranked 129th, came from behind to beat 65th-ranked Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan in three sets on Thursday night. Pospisil dropped the first set, but went on to take the match 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 in two hours 28 minutes. Last year she was defeated in the third round in Indian Wells by Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky. The 26-year-old Raonic made the final of the 2016 Indian Wells tournament, losing to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
Source: National Post March 10, 2017 06:33 UTC