Indian Wells 2025 Day 6 Recap

The last sixteen range is complete on the 2025 GDP Paribas Open, and Carlos Alcaraz looks like a big odds on the favorite to capture his third straight title in the tennis grains.

Spanjolen brushed aside Denis Shapovalov in straight sets and will meet Grigor Dimitrov for a place in the quarter finals after he came through a tough 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (2) battle against Gael Monfils.

Grigor has won their last two meetings, but I think it will be a big physical question for him, and the conditions play massively to Alcaraz’s advantage, which looks in fine fat.

Elsewhere, the American contingent had a successful day, with Fritz, Shelton and Nakashima all developed. They join Tommy Paul and Marcos Giron in the fourth round to give Hemfan’s lots of representation over the next two days.

Fritz had the closest of the three matches; His forehand has not shot off late, and he had to overcome an error-ridden first set to see the 30th seed Alejandro tabilo.

Full results and highlights below.

Day Six 2025 BNP Paribas Open Round with 32 Results

Alcaraz Sinks Shapovalov

Carlos Alcaraz continued his quest for a third straight GDP Paribas open with a leading 6-2, 6-4 victory over Denis Shapovalov on Monday evening.

When the Spanish ripped a 113 mph forehand, he drove into the fourth round, where he will meet the 14th seed Grigor Dimitrov, which I think will also be a simple day in the office.

Against Shapo, who has had a career life this season, Alcaraz wasted no time to claim himself, compete for a 5-0 lead in the opening set.
While the Canadian found his rhythm later in the match, he could never hold down his unlucky mistake because Alcaraz turned out to be quite clinical, which saves three out of four break points and converted four of his eight chances.

I know he started the season really strong and showed really good tennis with the title in Dallas, played good tennis in Acapulco, so I knew I had to start the match really strong, really focused on my things, at the level. Try to play good tennis, good rally in the beginning just to get the good pace to get into the match. I saw that it would be a really good and difficult battle, so just really happy with how I started the match. Nerves are good, but today I didn’t feel as much nerves as I did in the first round. Today I was more relaxed, I was calm, so I could think much better. But as I said, I think every player has nerves at the beginning of the match. That’s how you control it, so I think today and in the first round I did pretty well. So hopefully it will continue like this. Alcaraz on his win.

Draper Downs Brooksby

Jack Draper is another player who gels well with conditions in Indian wells, and he overcame a slow start on his way to defeat Jenson Brooksby 7-5 and 6-4.

Brooksby, which entered through Protect Ranking, has a reputation as a very tricky customer, and he established a 4-1 lead in the first set. However, the British could recover and overcome some early frustrations to break back and move to his advantage.

Draprers heavy top spin advance can do damage to this surface and it turned out to be crucial, consistently attached Brooksby in its back hand corner when the match was on.

Jenson is an Oortodox player, he makes life really difficult. He does not make the rhythm light. I started slowly, I missed a couple of opportunities early. But I’m happy about how I fought and competed. Even though it wasn’t my best tennis today, I’m really happy with how I tried my best to keep you cool Draper on Brooksby.

Other matches of notes

Alex de Minaur cruised past Hubert Hurgacz 6-4, 6-0 in just 75 minutes. The ninth seed was clinically, converted all four breaking points and saved the only thing he met. Now 15-1 against players outside the top 20 in 2025, De Minaur is facing Francisco Cerúndolo, who defeated Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3, 6-4.

Taylor Fritz recovered from a slow start to fight by Alejandro Tabilo 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. The champion in 2022 fought with the texture early and took up 43 unthreated errors, but stabilized his game in the final set. He is now facing Jack Draper during the last sixteen.

Brandon Nakashima also impressed and eliminated Matteo Arnaldi 6-2, 6-4 in 75 minutes to reach the fourth round for the first time. The 33rd seed, which comes from a semi-final run in Acapulco, is facing Ben Shelton in an All-American last-Sxtton collision and my prediction that he is in the top 20 looks possible.

Elfte-seeded American legs Shelton overcome 22th-seated Karen Khachanov in a composite performance. Shelton dominated the first set 6-3 and used its thriving serve and aggressive advance to dictate games. The second set saw Khachanov strike back and take a 5-3 lead. Shelton, however, raised its energy levels, clapped back to plan the set and eventually seal on 7-5 after 1 hour and 35 minutes.

14-seeded Grigor Dimitrov surpassed France’s Gael Monfils in three tiebreak-Laden sets. The first set went to Dimitrov 7-6 (4), with both players who traded spectacular shots that you can probably expect. Monfils, which has had an excellent start at 2025, struggled back to take the second set 6-4.

The decisive set was a roller coaster, which culminated with a 7-6 (2) tiebreak victory for Dimi, who kept his nerve for critical moments to collect his best victory for the year so far. Alcaraz is the next for him, but I just don’t see him to hold up physically in it, given his latest struggle.

Highlights

Indian Wells 2025 Day 7 round of 16 matches