The action at Indian Wells, one of the season's biggest tournaments in men's and women's tennis, is hurtling towards its conclusion. Defector tennis bureau chief Giri Nathan and correspondent Patrick Redford are on the scene, here with a dispatch on the highest-ranked American men's player losing a thriller.
The first 90 minutes of tennis baby Holger Rune's fourth-round matchup with the glass cannon Taylor Fritz at Indian Wells were a grim continuation of his vaguely haunted past few months, and an uncomfortable echo of the last time he was down here in Southern California.
