Adelaide Open: O’Connell beats Rinderknech in first round

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

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