INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Britain's Jack Draper beat No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz in straight sets Wednesday, leaving Ben Shelton as the lone American man to reach the quarterfinals at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open.
Fritz, a past champion at Indian Wells in 2022, lost to Draper 7-5, 6-4.
"I played a really high-level match," said Draper, a US Open semifinalist. "I think I struggled here in the past with my serve, but I thought that I served great today, and I think that put a lot of pressure on him."
Up next for Draper is Shelton, who became the youngest American man since Andy Roddick in 2004 to reach the final eight in the California desert by beating Brandon Nakashima.
The 22-year-old Shelton cruised in the second set of a 7-6 (6), 6-1 victory. After a 61-minute opening set, he took a 5-0 lead in just 20 minutes in the deciding set.
The 11th-seeded Shelton hasn't dropped a set in five career matches against Nakashima, a 23-year-old American.
Second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz hasn't dropped a set on his way to the quarterfinals. The four-time Grand Slam champion breezed to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over No. 14 seed Grigor Dimitrov.
Alcaraz, who is bidding to become the third man to win the event three times in a row after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, handled the blustery conditions far better than his opponent.
Dimitrov was showing signs of fatigue from his three-hour third-round match earlier in the week and could do little to stop the world No. 3.
"Today with the conditions, it was really tough for us both. I had to survive," Alcaraz told the ATP Tour. "I always say in these conditions, you have to survive no matter what. I'm very happy that I was able to play long rallies. I got a good rhythm, even with the conditions, so I'm just really happy to get through."
Alcaraz did not face a break point in the first set as Dimitrov scraped together a handful of winners against more than a dozen unforced errors.
Alcaraz dropped only four of his first-serve points in the second set and snuffed out the three break point chances Dimitrov had in the fifth game.
He next faces Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo, who topped Australian Alex De Minaur 7-5, 6-3.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.