Indian Wells Masters: Arnaldi into second round, meets Rublev next
The Italian edged out Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Thursday and will face No 7 seed Andrey Rublev in the next round
Matteo Arnaldi – Federico Pestellini / Panoramic
BNP Paribas Open •First round •
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Italian Matteo Arnaldi edged out American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the second round of BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.
Arnaldi, ranked No 35, will play No 7 seed Andrey Rublev next.
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 13,042,410, most recent results first):
- Gael Monfils beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 6-4, 6-4
- Matteo Gigante (Q) beat Sebastian Baez: 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Gabriel Diallo (LL) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7)
- Mackenzie McDonald (WC) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Jakub Mensik beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Jenson Brooksby beat Benjamin Bonzi: 1-6, 7-5, 7-5
- Joao Fonseca (WC) beat Jacob Fearnley: 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
- Rinky Hijikata beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-1, 6-3
- Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Cameron Norrie beat Luca Nardi: 6-0, 6-3
- Corentin Moutet beat Jordan Thompson: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Zizou Bergs beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Marcos Giron beat Nikoloz Basilashvili (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Roman Safiullin beat Reilly Opelka (WC): 7-5, 6-4
- Damir Dzumhur (Q) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4)
- Colton Smith (Q) beat Flavio Cobolli: 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Fabian Marozsan beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-3, 6-2
- Yunchaokete Bu beat Nishesh Basavareddy (WC): 7-5, 6-4
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3
- Christopher O’Connell beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 0-6, 6-1
- Tristan Boyer (WC) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4)
- Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Alexandre Muller: 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (6)
- Kei Nishikori beat Jaume Munar: 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (3)
- Mariano Navone vs. Learner Tien
- Li Tu vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Quentin Halys vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adam Walton
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Nick Kyrgios
- David Goffin vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Nuno Borges
- Luciano Darderi vs. Hugo Gaston
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