Australian Open: De Jong sets up Sinner clash in second round
Jesper De Jong edged out Pedro Cachin 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round on Sunday
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Dutch qualifier Jesper De Jong edged out Argentinian Pedro Cachin 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday.
De Jong, ranked No 148, will play Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 4 seed, next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58,910,000):
- Tomas Machac beat Shintaro Mochizuki (LL): 7-5, 6-1, 7-5
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
- Fabian Marozsan beat Marin Čilić: 6-1, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
- Francisco Cerundolo (22) beat Dane Sweeny (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
- Pavel Kotov beat Arthur Rinderknech: 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3
- Jannik Sinner beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-4, 7-5, 6-3
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Adam Walton (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4
- Jaume Munar beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
- Sebastian Baez (26) beat J.J. Wolf: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 2-0 ret.
- Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
- Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
- Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
- Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
- Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
- James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
- Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
- Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dominic Thiem
- Alex De Minaur vs. Milos Raonic
- Omar Jasika vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Alexandre Muller vs. Hugo Grenier
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Federico Coria
- Ugo Humbert vs. David Goffin
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Nuno Borges
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Taro Daniel
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Karen Khachanov
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
- Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Gael Monfils
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Jakub Mensik
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Jordan Thompson
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Constant Lestienne vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- James Duckworth vs. Luca Van Assche
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Ben Shelton
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Marc Polmans
- Terence Atmane vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Patrick Kypson vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Sebastian Korda vs. Vit Kopriva
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Benjamin Bonzi
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Hugo Gaston
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Borna Coric
- Novak Djokovic vs. Dino Prizmic
- Quentin Halys vs. Lloyd Harris
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jason Kubler
- Taylor Fritz vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Cristian Garin
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