Indian Wells: Clutch Vukic sees off qualifier Mochizuki
Aleksandar Vukic won against Shintaro Mochizuki 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) on Thursday evening and will face top seed Novak Djokovic in the next round
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Australian Aleksandar Vukic moved into the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday evening.
Vukic, ranked No 69, will play top seed Novak Djokovic next.
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Milos Raonic vs. Sumit Nagal
- Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
- Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
- Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
- Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
- Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
- Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong
- Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans
- Gael Monfils vs. Max Purcell
- Lucas Pouille vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla: thursday
- Stan Wawrinka vs. Tomas Machac: thursday
- Lorenzo Sonego beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (1), 6-4
- 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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