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Last night and this morning, Beijing time, the Indian Wells Open continued. Men's side: At around 11 a.m., the second round of the men's singles ushered in a key matchup, with Chinese teenager Buyun Chaokert challenging Grand Slam champion and Russian star Dmitry Medvedev. After the opening, Xiaobu seized the opportunity to break serve in the first game, but unfortunately was quickly broken back by Mr. Mei. As of press time, the match reached the seventh game of the first set, and the score was 2-4, with Xiaobu behind. Good luck to Xiaobu!

In the second round of the match, Dutch No. 1 Grykspoor played well to defeat top seed and world No. 2 Zverev in a 4-6 7-6 7-6 tie-break to advance hard. The Germans, on the other hand, once again missed a good chance to increase the points, and the difference between them and the world No. 1 Sinner is still more than 3,300 points, and there is no hope of it.

No.4 seed Ruud of Norway also failed to win on his debut, being knocked out 7-6(4) 3-6 6-2 by homegrown player Giron. Danish rising star Rune beat Frenchman Mutette 6-2 6-4 to advance to the third round. Others who won in the second round were Italy's Berrettini, Musetti, Greece's Tsitsipas, Australia's Poplin, homegrown players Paulo and Mickelson, Britain's Norrie, France's Perricard, Embert and Fes.

Women's Field: In a singles second-round focus match that ended this morning Beijing time, China's Golden Flower Wang Xinyu was in excellent form, defeating Latvia's Ostapenko 6-4 in two ways to advance to the third round and draw the record between the two at 1-1. Next up, Wang Xinyu will take on American Pegula, who beat Poland's second sister Linette 6-4 6-2.

New Zealand-Chinese player Lulu Sun defeated 31st seed and Czech rising star Noskova 6-1 6-4 to await the winner between China's Zheng Qinwen and Belarusian Azarenka. Xiao Zheng's IW debut, due to the previous "delay", the kick-off time was delayed to about 12:30 noon.

Two-time champion and second seed Swiatek swept past France's Garcia 6-2 6-0 to make it four wins in a row and defend her opening match. Next up is her face Ukraine's Yastremska, who swept past Tunisian sister Jabeur 6-3 6-1. Seventh seed Rybakina of Kazakhstan also advanced with a 6-3 6-3 win over Dutchman Lamens. Other winners in the second round were Czech star Mukhova and Siniakova, Ukrainian rising star Kostyuk, Briton Usain Bolt and American Dolehide.

Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below is of a player in training. Can you recognize who he is without prompting?

In the last guess, the golfer gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the Dutch brother Grykspoor.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)