O’Connell overcomes Draper in tough Indian Wells opener

Australian Christopher O’Connell won against Jack Draper 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday evening.

It was a match played heavily on O’Connell’s racquet, with the Aussie blasting 39 winners to Draper’s 14, while also striking 44 unforced errors to the Brit’s 25. Draper had his chances after going up a break in the deciding set, but was unable to capitalise as he was broken three times himself in the third.

O’Connell, ranked No 66, will play No 6 seed Alexander Zverev next.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):

• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Milos Raonic vs. Rafael Nadal
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Tomas Machac
• Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Gael Monfils vs. Max Purcell
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla
• Lucas Pouille vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Jurij Rodionov
• Taro Daniel vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Andy Murray vs. David Goffin
• Luca Van Assche vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Brandon Nakashima: wednesday
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Pedro Cachin: wednesday
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Dominik Koepfer: wednesday
• Thanasi Kokkinakis beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 7-5