Indian Wells: Mensik continues strong form to reach second round

Wildcard Jakub Mensik won against qualifier Seong-Chan Hong 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Mensik, ranked No 81, will face No 16 seed Ben Shelton 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
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar: thursday
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner: thursday
• Gael Monfils beat Max Purcell: 6-1, 6-2
• Roman Safiullin beat Daniel Evans: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
• Dusan Lajovic beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 7-5, 6-2
• Lucas Pouille (Q) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 6-3
• 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