World No 2 Aryna Sabalenka cruised into her third final of the season with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over last year's runner-up, No.7 seed Maria Sakkari, in the Indian Wells Masters semifinals, here.
Novak Djokovic, too, confirmed that Sharapova's recollection that both had gone to dinner during their initial days of the career was true.
Indian tennis star Sumit Nagal questioned the decision of postponing the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells at the eleventh hour.
The Nadal-Federer match will be the 39th between the two all-time greats and their ninth consecutive contest on hard courts.
"We've had a lot of great matches," Williams said of playing Suarez Navarro.
World No.1 Simona Halep and Venus Williams punched their tickets to the Indian Wells quarter-finals, while Caroline Wozniacki suffered another…
The 24-year-old American suffered a shock third round loss on Monday to World No.19 Daria Kasatkina in the 16 million joint WTA/ATP tournament, which is one of tennis' biggest events outside of the four Grand Slams.
Serena Williams' return to tournament tennis came to an abrupt end here Monday as she crashed out of Indian Wells with a 6-3 6-4 loss to her sister Venus.
The 27-year-old World No.2 Wozniacki moves on to the fourth round where she will face either reigning US Open champion Sloane Stephens or 20th seed Daria Kasatkina of Russia.
Bhambri will next take on tall American World No.21 Sam Querry
