Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev defeated Dominik Koepfer of Germany in the second round match at the BNP Paribas Open tournament. The game ended with the score 7:5, 6:4. In the next round, the Russian will play with the winner of the match between the Americans Brandon Nakashima and Francis Tiafoe.
24-year-old Rublev is seventh in the ATP rankings. He is an Olympic champion in the mixed doubles, the winner of the Davis Cup and the ATP Cup as part of the Russian team. The Russian has 10 ATP titles. 27-year-old Köpfer takes 51st place in the ranking of tennis players. He has no titles under the auspices of the ATP.
The BNP Paribas Open is a men’s and women’s ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tournament held in Indian Wells. The prize fund is $8.5 million. Russians Daniil Medvedev, Anna Kalinskaya and Veronika Kudermetova also advanced to the third round.
