Indian Wells Masters: Wawrinka continues comeback, moves into second round
Stan Wawrinka defeated Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 on Thursday and will face No 26 seed Miomir Kecmanovic in the next round
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Swiss Stan Wawrinka advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against Australian Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.
Wawrinka, ranked No 100, will play No 26 seed Miomir Kecmanovic next.
Indian Wells Masters, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Gregoire Barrere vs. Jack Sock
- Dominic Thiem vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Borna Gojo vs. Richard Gasquet
- Mikael Ymer vs. Rinky Hijikata
- J.J. Wolf vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Alex Molcan vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Pedro Martinez vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Andy Murray
- Ben Shelton vs. Fabio Fognini
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Brandon Holt: thursday
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Guido Pella: thursday
- Jack Draper beat Leandro Riedi (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Quentin Halys: thursday
- 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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