Chengdu Open: O’Connell moves into second round

Australian Christopher O’Connell won against Russian Pavel Kotov 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Chengdu Open at the Sichuan International Tennis Center on Thursday.

O’Connell, ranked No 75, will play top seed Lorenzo Musetti next.

Chengdu ATP 250, other first-round results (Sichuan International Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.171.655, most recent results first):

• Terence Atmane vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexandre Muller vs. Federico Agustin Gomez: thursday
• Roman Safiullin vs. Fabio Fognini: thursday
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Juncheng Shang beat Kei Nishikori (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Borna Coric: 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-4
• Alibek Kachmazov (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Yi Zhou (WC) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 2-6, 6-1, 3-1 ret.
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (7) beat Fajing Sun (WC): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4
• Taro Daniel beat Lorenzo Sonego (6): 6-4, 7-5
• Lukas Klein beat Adam Walton: 7-6 (3), 6-4