China Open: De Minaur saved three match points to defeat Murray

Australian Alex De Minaur reached the second round of the China Open by edging out Andy Murray 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (6) at the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing on Thursday afternoon.

De Minaur, ranked No 12, will play the winner of the match between American Tommy Paul and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, next.

Beijing ATP500, other first-round results (Olympic Green Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.633.875, most recent results first):

• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Casper Ruud
• Alexander Zverev vs. Diego Schwartzman
• Juncheng Shang vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Karen Khachanov vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Andrey Rublev vs. Cameron Norrie
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Holger Rune vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Tommy Paul vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Daniel Evans vs. Jannik Sinner
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Yi Zhou (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Matteo Arnaldi (Q) beat J.J. Wolf (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Ugo Humbert beat Lorenzo Sonego: 7-5, 3-6, 6-0