Two days after defeating another team of singles standouts, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and Learner Tien<\/a> in the first round, the duo returned to the court with a similar intent to defeat Djokovic and former No. 3 in the PIF ATP Rankings Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n In a match of fine margins, Rinderknech and Vacherot demonstrated immense composure. They saved three set points on serve at 5-6 in the first set and won four consecutive games after trailing 3-5 in the second set. The pair fired 11 aces and saved four of the five break points they faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats, en route to their one-hour, 42-minute win.<\/p>\n The cousins will face Karen Khachanov<\/a> and Andrey Rublev<\/a> \u2014 the only other pair of singles stars remaining in the draw \u2014 in the quarter-finals. Khachanov and Rublev edged Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> and Sebastian Korda<\/a> 7-6(3), 4-6, 10-5. <\/p>\n Djokovic and Tsitsipas earned a comprehensive 53-minute victory against defending champions Marcelo Arevalo<\/a> and Mate Pavic<\/a> in the first round. But they couldn\u2019t keep their run going. Djokovic, a five-time champion at the event, will now aim to continue his singles campaign on Wednesday when he faces Jack Draper<\/a> in the fourth round. Tsitsipas lost to Denis Shapovalov<\/a> in the opening round.<\/p>\n In other doubles second-round action, Marcel Granollers<\/a> and Horacio Zeballos<\/a> rallied past Frenchmen Sadio Doumbia<\/a> and Fabien Reboul<\/a> 2-6, 6-3, 10-5. The top seeds will next face Constantin Frantzen<\/a> and Robin Haase<\/a>, who upset fifth seeds Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and Tim Puetz<\/a> 6-4, 7-6(10).<\/p>\n Christian Harrison<\/a> and Neal Skupski<\/a> also advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win against Orlando Luz<\/a> and Rafael Matos<\/a>. The fourth seeds will play Guido Andreozzi<\/a> and Manuel Guinard<\/a> in the last eight, who earned a 6-4, 6-4 victory against seventh seeds Francisco Cabral<\/a> and Lucas Miedler<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yuki Bhambri<\/a> and Andre Goransson<\/a> also reached the quarter-finals by cruising past Sander Arends<\/a> and Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-4, 6-4. They will face Alexander Erler<\/a> and Andrea Vavassori<\/a>, who secured their quarter-final spot by triumphing 6-3, 7-6(3) against Maximo Gonzalez<\/a> and Andres<\/a> Molteni.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubles Djokovic\/Tsitsipas fall to Rinderknech\/Vacherot in Indian Wells Duo to face Khachanov\/Rublev in the quarter-final March 11, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-528992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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