Indian Wells Masters: Popyrin wins first round, meets ninth seed Hurkacz next

The Australian defeated China’s Zhizhen Zhang in three sets in the first round on Thursday

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Australian lucky loser Alexei Popyrin advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by beating Chinese qualifier Zhizhen Zhang 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 on Thursday night.

Popyrin, ranked No 101, will play No 9 seed Hubert Hurkacz, of Poland, next.

Indian Wells Masters, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000):

  • Jack Sock (WC) beat Gregoire Barrere: 6-4, 6-2
  • Adrian Mannarino beat Dominic Thiem (WC): 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
  • Richard Gasquet beat Borna Gojo (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2
  • Rinky Hijikata (Q) beat Mikael Ymer: 6-4, 7-5
  • Pedro Martinez beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4
  • Andy Murray beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4
  • Alex Molcan beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-3, 6-2
  • Marton Fucsovics beat J.J. Wolf: 1-6, 6-0, 6-3
  • Ben Shelton beat Fabio Fognini: 6-4, 6-1
  • Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Brandon Holt (WC): 6-4, 6-1
  • Guido Pella beat Thiago Monteiro: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
  • Stan Wawrinka beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
  • Jack Draper beat Leandro Riedi (Q): 6-1, 6-1
  • Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) beat Quentin Halys: 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
  • Mackenzie McDonald beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-3, 6-0
  • Tung-lin Wu beat Alexander Bublik: 6-4, 6-4
  • Alejandro Tabilo (Q) beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-3
  • Jordan Thompson beat Gael Monfils: 6-3, 6-1
  • Diego Schwartzman beat Federico Coria: 6-1, 6-2
  • Jiri Lehecka beat Arthur Rinderknech: 7-6 (4), 7-5
  • Cristian Garin (Q) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4, 6-2
  • Yibing Wu (WC) beat Jaume Munar: 6-7 (6), 6-0, 7-6 (3)
  • Taro Daniel (Q) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-1, 7-5
  • Jason Kubler beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
  • Pedro Cachin beat Nikoloz Basilashvili: 7-5, 6-3
  • Emil Ruusuvuori beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 4-1 ret.
  • Brandon Nakashima beat John Isner: 7-6 (7), 6-3
  • Marcos Giron beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (WC): 6-3, 7-5
  • Ugo Humbert beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
  • Oscar Otte beat Laslo Djere: 6-3, 7-5
  • Ilya Ivashka beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-2

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