In the early morning of March 13, Beijing time, the second round of the ATP1000 Indian Wells Masters began to compete, and the top seed Medvedev of the tournament played against the Czech player Mahać who broke through from the qualifiers. After two sets of competition, Medvedev easily swept the opponent 2-0 and successfully reached the Indian Wells Round of 32.
In the first set, Medvedev saved the break point in the first set, and in the sixth set, Medvedev broke four consecutive points to take a 4-2 lead. In the 9th set, Medvedev won the set, and he won the love game to win the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Medvedev broke the opponent's serve as soon as he came up, and then he saved the serve to take a 2-0 lead. Mahać saved the break point in the 3rd set, Medvedev broke again in the 5th set, and he saved the 5-1 lead in the 6th set. In the 7th set, Mahać managed to hold his serve at the end of the match, and then Medvedev managed to save the serve in the 8th set and win the second set 6-2.
In a match that lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes, the tournament's top seed Medvedev defeated Mahać 6-3, 6-2 to win his first victory as world number one. Medvedev's opponent in the next round will be the winner between Huklajinovic and Monfils.