Indian Wells: Pouille winds back the clock for impressive win over Altmaier

French qualifier Lucas Pouille won against German Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Pouille, ranked No 273, will face No 11 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas next.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):

• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Milos Raonic vs. Sumit Nagal
• Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong: thursday
• Gael Monfils vs. Max Purcell: thursday
• Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans: thursday
• Dusan Lajovic beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 7-5, 6-2
• Constant Lestienne (Q) beat Denis Kudla (Q): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Tomas Machac beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-2
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6)
• Taro Daniel beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4, 6-1
• Andy Murray beat David Goffin (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Fabian Marozsan beat Jurij Rodionov (LL): 6-3, 6-2
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3)
• Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Pedro Cachin: 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-1
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (3)
• Christopher O’Connell beat Jack Draper: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Thanasi Kokkinakis beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 7-5