Indian Wells Masters: Hijikata dominates Shevchenko in opening match

Australian Rinky Hijikata beat Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

Hijikata, ranked No 83, will play No 32 seed Brandon Nakashima next.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 13.042.410, most recent results first):

• Mariano Navone vs. Learner Tien
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Nick Kyrgios
• Quentin Halys vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adam Walton
• Li Tu vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Nuno Borges
• David Goffin vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Luciano Darderi vs. Hugo Gaston
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Gael Monfils
• Matteo Gigante vs. Sebastian Baez
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Jakub Mensik: thursday
• Benjamin Bonzi vs. Jenson Brooksby: thursday
• Jacob Fearnley vs. Joao Fonseca: thursday
• 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)