Indian Wells: Klein wins battle of qualifiers to reach second round
Lukas Klein defeated Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-6 (8), 6-4 on Friday night. He’ll face No 9 seed Casper Ruud in the next round
Lukas-Klein (Icon SMI / Panoramic)
Slovak qualifier Lukas Klein advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by beating American qualifier Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-6 (8), 6-4 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday night.
Klein, ranked No 141, will face No 9 seed Casper Ruud next.
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Flavio Cobolli: 6-4, 6-4
- Denis Shapovalov beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-1, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo beat Pavel Kotov: 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Alexandre Muller beat Hugo Grenier (Q): 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (WC): 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-5
- Milos Raonic beat Sumit Nagal (LL): 6-3, 6-3
- Patrick Kypson (WC) beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (1)
- Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Arthur Fils beat Nuno Borges: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- 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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