<div align="justify">World number one Andy Murray was sent packing from the second round of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday after losing 6-4, 7-6(5) to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil.<br /><br />Pospisil delivered the knockout punch in style, whipping a crosscourt winner on his fourth match point in front of the near capacity crowd that included former boxing champion Mike Tyson.<br /><br />Pospisil was rewarded for his aggressive approach, rushing the net whenever the opportunity arose and pouncing on Murray's second serve.<br /><br />Pospisil joked that his lowly current world ranking was due to a "mid-life crisis" that saw him endure a lean 2016, after he had made the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2015.<br />Earlier, Italian Fabi Fognini won a battle of expectant fathers when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4.<br /><br />Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded in a match that stretched over two hours in the blazing afternoon sun.<br /><br />Fognini considered himself fortunate even to make it to the second round.<br /><br />The Italian dropped the first set to love and was down 5-2 in the second set of his first-round encounter with Russian Konstantin Kravchuk, before roaring back to win 0-6 7-5 6-4.<br /><br />In another upset on Saturday, Japanese world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka beat Croatian veteran Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-3, but seeds Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Tomas Berdych won their matches to advance.<br /><br />Kerber wins<br /><br />Angelique Kerber, who will reclaim the world number one ranking on Monday, breezed to a 6-2, 6-1 second-round victory over fellow German Andrea Petkovic.<br /><br />Second-seed Kerber broke Petkovic to open the match and claim the win.<br /><br />Fourth seed Simona Halep also won emphatically, 6-4, 6-1 over Donna Vekic.<br /><br />Halep, the 2015 champion, broke her Croatian opponent no fewer than seven times.<br /><br />While Kerber and Halep won in quick fashion, 12th seed Venus Williams beat Serbian Jelena Jankovic in a dramatic battle between the former world number ones.<br /><br />Jankovic raced through the first set and seemed poised for an upset, but the second set tiebreak proved pivotal, as Williams survived, staving off three match points en route to a 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 victory.<br /><br />Sania-Strycova through<br /><br />Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova stormed into the quarterfinals with a straight-set win in the women’s doubles.<br /><br />The Indo-Czech pair beat Sara Errani of Italy and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-2, 6-3 in a 64-minute second-round contest last night.<br /><br />Meanwhile in the men’s doubles, Leander Paes and his Argentine partner Juan Martin del Potro lost to American Sam Querrey and Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 3-6, 4-6 in the first round.<br /></div>
<div align="justify">World number one Andy Murray was sent packing from the second round of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday after losing 6-4, 7-6(5) to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil.<br /><br />Pospisil delivered the knockout punch in style, whipping a crosscourt winner on his fourth match point in front of the near capacity crowd that included former boxing champion Mike Tyson.<br /><br />Pospisil was rewarded for his aggressive approach, rushing the net whenever the opportunity arose and pouncing on Murray's second serve.<br /><br />Pospisil joked that his lowly current world ranking was due to a "mid-life crisis" that saw him endure a lean 2016, after he had made the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2015.<br />Earlier, Italian Fabi Fognini won a battle of expectant fathers when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4.<br /><br />Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded in a match that stretched over two hours in the blazing afternoon sun.<br /><br />Fognini considered himself fortunate even to make it to the second round.<br /><br />The Italian dropped the first set to love and was down 5-2 in the second set of his first-round encounter with Russian Konstantin Kravchuk, before roaring back to win 0-6 7-5 6-4.<br /><br />In another upset on Saturday, Japanese world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka beat Croatian veteran Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-3, but seeds Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Tomas Berdych won their matches to advance.<br /><br />Kerber wins<br /><br />Angelique Kerber, who will reclaim the world number one ranking on Monday, breezed to a 6-2, 6-1 second-round victory over fellow German Andrea Petkovic.<br /><br />Second-seed Kerber broke Petkovic to open the match and claim the win.<br /><br />Fourth seed Simona Halep also won emphatically, 6-4, 6-1 over Donna Vekic.<br /><br />Halep, the 2015 champion, broke her Croatian opponent no fewer than seven times.<br /><br />While Kerber and Halep won in quick fashion, 12th seed Venus Williams beat Serbian Jelena Jankovic in a dramatic battle between the former world number ones.<br /><br />Jankovic raced through the first set and seemed poised for an upset, but the second set tiebreak proved pivotal, as Williams survived, staving off three match points en route to a 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 victory.<br /><br />Sania-Strycova through<br /><br />Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova stormed into the quarterfinals with a straight-set win in the women’s doubles.<br /><br />The Indo-Czech pair beat Sara Errani of Italy and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-2, 6-3 in a 64-minute second-round contest last night.<br /><br />Meanwhile in the men’s doubles, Leander Paes and his Argentine partner Juan Martin del Potro lost to American Sam Querrey and Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 3-6, 4-6 in the first round.<br /></div>