Boulter and Norrie knocked out of Indian Wells

Britain's Katie Boulter and Cameron Norrie were knocked retired of Indian Wells arsenic they suffered straight-set defeats successful the 3rd round.

British women's fig 1 Boulter was beaten 6-0 7-5 by seventh effect Elena Rybakina successful California.

British men's fig 2 Norrie earlier mislaid 6-3 7-5 to 10th effect Tommy Paul.

Sonay Kartal is the lone remaining Briton successful the women's gully and Jack Draper the past British male.

Playing her archetypal tourney since January's Australian Open due to the fact that of a ft injury, Boulter received a first-round bye arsenic the 25th seed.

Former Wimbledon champion Rybakina won the archetypal 7 games successful taking the archetypal acceptable successful 26 minutes, but Boulter regrouped successful the 2nd and broke Kazakhstan's Rybakina to assertion a 4-3 pb earlier serving for the acceptable astatine 5-4.

Although Boulter saved 2 interruption points, Rybakina took vantage of a 3rd to level it up and, aft holding serve, broke Boulter acknowledgment to a treble responsibility connected lucifer point.

Rybakina volition look Russian ninth effect Mirra Andreeva, who bushed Denmark's Clara Tauson 6-3 6-0, successful the past 16.

Defending champion Iga Swiatek - chasing a 3rd rubric successful this tourney - dominated Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska 6-0 6-2.

Poland's Swiatek volition play Karolina Muchova, a 7-5 6-1 victor against chap Czech Katerina Siniakova, next.

American 4th effect Jessica Pegula bushed China's Wang Xinyu 6-2 6-1 to acceptable up a gathering with Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, who bushed American Danielle Collins 6-2 6-4.

World fig 77 Norrie, who claimed his biggest vocation rubric by winning Indian Wells successful 2021, was breached 3 times earlier handing American Paul the opening acceptable with a treble fault.

In the 2nd acceptable Norrie was breached again earlier levelling astatine 4-4, but served a 5th treble responsibility connected lucifer point.

World fig 11 Paul, who volition play Russian 5th effect Daniil Medvedev successful the past 16, said: "It was a ace weird lucifer - a batch of breaks. It was an up-and-down lucifer connected some sides."

Draper, the 13th seed, volition play American Jenson Brooksby connected Monday.

Medvedev progressed arsenic American Alex Michelsen retired aft 2 games due to the fact that of illness, portion Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas bushed Italian Matteo Berrettini 6-3 6-3.