Fils overcomes Borges to make Indian Wells second round
Arthur Fils defeated Nuno Borges 7-6 (5), 6-2 on Thursday night and will play No 23 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the next round
Arthur Fils – (c) Chryslene Caillaud / Panoramic
Frenchman Arthur Fils defeated Portuguese Nuno Borges 7-6 (5), 6-2 to move into the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.
Fils, ranked No 43, will face No 23 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina next.
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):
- Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Milos Raonic vs. Sumit Nagal: friday
- Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson: friday
- Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles: friday
- Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-2, 6-3
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat J.J. Wolf: 6-2, 6-1
- Alex Michelsen beat Jaume Munar: 6-2, 6-3
- Borna Coric beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
- Jakub Mensik (WC) beat Seong-Chan Hong (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- 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
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