Bencic defeat­ed world number one 6-3, 6-1 to reach the quarte­r-finals of the presti­gious WTA premie­r mandat­ory eventINDIAN WELLS: World number one Naomi Osaka crashed out of Indian Wells on Tuesday, routed by Belinda Bencic on a day that saw second-ranked Simona Halep sent packing, too. The women’s field lost its top two seeds as Romania’s Halep, the 2015 Indian Wells winner, fell to Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. “But it’s everything I could do today.”Osaka keeps Indian Wells title defense on trackHer defeat means Osaka will retain her number one ranking, even though she couldn’t pull off her first title defense. Former world number ones Venus Williams and Garbine Muguruza made it into the quarter-finals. Andreescu improved her match record for 2019 to 25-3, including qualifying, as she became the youngest player to make the last eight at Indian Wells since a 17-year-old Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova reached the semis in 2009.

Source: The Express Tribune March 13, 2019 05:37 UTC