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No seeds, but some marquee players on the sked Wednesday including rising teen phenom Joao Fonseca.

In his first main draw match in the desert – only his second tournament at the Masters 1000 level – he got the stadium court. And got through.

Also on the big court, but with far more question marks, was Nick Kyrgios.

After a long absence, Kyrgios returned in Brisbane in January. But in the end, he couldn’t play the Australian Open and hasn’t played since.

There was video circulating of him having issues with his surgically-repaired wrist on the practice court. And we’ve all seen how tough wrist surgeries are to come back from. He couldn’t finish.

In other news, Canadian Gabriel Diallo was a last-minute lucky loser Wednesday night and got in against Zhang Zhizhen. And fought back to take the second set. But they were stopped at 4-4 in the third by some rain and have to come back today. And he saved match points to pull it out in the third-set tiebreak.

WTA Tour – Thursday, March 6, 2025 final results

(Indian Wells is 3 hours beind ET)

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BNP Paribas Open
Location: Indian Wells, Calif.
Category: ATP 1000 (Joint event with the WTA Tour) 
Surface: Hard Court
Dates:  March 5 – 16, 2025
Prize Money: $8,963,700
Draws: S96 – D32

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Final results

Singles, first round

Canadian content

[Q] Kamil Majchrzak (POL) [LL] Gabriel Diallo (CAN) def Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) 62 26 76 (7)

 

 

Injury retirements

[LL] Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) def [PR] Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 76 (7) 30 retd

 

 

High-profile openers

[WC] Joao Fonseca (BRA) def. Jacob Fearnley (GBR) 62 16 63

Gaël Monfils (FRA) def Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 64 64

 

 

Americans

[PR] Jenson Brooksby (USA) def Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) 16 75 75

[WC] Mackenzie McDonald (USA) def Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) 26 63 62

 

 

Qualifiers prevailing

[Q] Hugo Gaston (FRA) def Luciano Darderi (ITA) 63 63

[Q] Matteo Gigante (ITA) def Sebastian Baez (ARG) 36 61 64

[Q] Adam Walton (AUS) def. [Q] Giulio Zeppieri (ITA) 75 61

 

 

Other results

Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) def Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) 63 57 64

Nuno Borges (POR) def Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 61 57 62

David Goffin (BEL) def Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 64 75

Rinky Hijikata (AUS) def Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ) 61 63

Dusan Lajovic (SRB) def. [Q] Li Tu (AUS) 62 60

Jakub Mensik (CZE) def Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) 64 76 (6)

 

 

Suspended matches

Learner Tien (USA) vs. Mariano Navone (ARG) 57 32 – suspended

Quentin Halys (FRA) vs. [Q] Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) 63 41 – suspended

 

 

ATP Tour – Wednesday, March, 5, 2025 final results

WTA Tour – Wednesday, March 5, 2025 final results

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