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Rafael Nadal advanced to the semifinals of the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., defeating defending Indian Wells champion Roger Federer 6-4, 6-2. Nadal avenged a loss in the semifinals last year to Federer and now holds a 19-10 record head to head against Federer over his career.  "I played a fantastic first set,…

Thirteenth-seeded Maria Kirilenko overcame an injury and a mid-match lapse to defeat the fifth-seeded Petra Kvitova 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. to advance to the semifinals of the event.  "Finally, I reached the semifinals," said Kirilenko. "I’m really happy I won this match. I had some problems with…

Roger Federer will face Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the 2013 BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden after Federer defeated his Swiss countryman Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-5 in two hours and 20 minutes. Federer improved to a 13-1 record over Wawrinka as he advanced to the quarterfinals at Indian Wells for…

On Tuesday at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open, Caroline Wozniacki rallied from 5-3 down to win a marathon 65-minute first set before taking a simpler second set to move past the 10th-seeded Nadia Petrova in a two-setter, 7-6(3), 6-3. Wozniacki had won four of her six previous meetings with Petrova. Next up for Wozniacki is the top…

Sam Querrey, the number 23 seed at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open, defeated Australian Marinko Matosevic 7-6(5), 6-7(7), 7-5 on Tuesday to advance to face world number one Novak Djokovic. With the win and Querrey’s trip to the Round of 16, he will become the top ranked American when the ATP Men’s Singles Rankings are released…

Andy Murray advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., defeating Yen-Hsun Lu 6-3, 6-2. With the win, Murray exacted revenge on Lu for a loss at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Murray advances to play Carlos Berlocq, who defeated the number 16-seed Kei Nishikori 6-2, 6-2. "He started…

Victoria Azarenka and Samantha Stosur both advanced to the fourth round of play at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open. The seventh-seeded Stosur dueled for two-hours and 12-minutes against Peng Shuai, dropping the second set and rallying from a break down in the third to beat Shuai, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Up next for Stosur will be the 24-seed,…

Roger Federer advanced to the fourth-round at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. with a 6-3, 6-1 win in a little over an hour over Croatia’s Ivan Dodig. Federer, the defending champion at Indian Wells rallied from 0-40 down in the first game and never looked back, breaking serve four times and…