Adelaide Open: O’Connell beats Rinderknech in first round
The Aussie won against Arthur Rinderknech 7-5, 7-6 (5) and will face the winner of the match between Alexander Bublik and Miomir Kecmanovic in the next round
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Australian Christopher O’Connell reached the second round of the Adelaide Open by defeating Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 7-5, 7-6 (5) at the Memorial Drive Tennis Centre on Monday.
O’Connell, ranked No 64, will face the winner of the match between Kazakh Alexander Bublik, the No 6 seed, and Serb Miomir Kecmanovic next.
Adelaide ATP 250, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, hard, USD 766.290, most recent results first):
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Tristan Schoolkate
- David Goffin vs. Rinky Hijikata
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Alexander Bublik vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Arthur Cazaux vs. Adam Walton
- James Duckworth vs. Li Tu
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Marcos Giron
- Manuel Guinard vs. Roman Safiullin
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 7-5, 6-2
- Denis Shapovalov beat Zhizhen Zhang (9): 6-3, 6-4
