Murray returns to the winners’ circle in Indian Wells

Andy Murray moved into the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against former world No 7 David Goffin 6-3, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday night.

The Brit took just one hour, 20 minutes to see off the veteran Belgian, striking 11 winners to eight unforced errors and breaking Goffin’s serve on three occasions. Murray, ranked No 61, will face No 5 seed Andrey Rublev next, who he holds a 1-1 head-to-head against.

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
• Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
• Milos Raonic vs. Rafael Nadal
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
• Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
• Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans
• Gael Monfils vs. Max Purcell
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Tomas Machac
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Lucas Pouille vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla
• Taro Daniel vs. Daniel Elahi Galan: wednesday
• 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