Shanghai Masters: Kokkinakis advances to second round, beats wild card Fognini
Thanasi Kokkinakis won against Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday night and will face No 16 seed Hubert Hurkacz in the next round
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Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis advanced to the second round of the Shanghai Masters by winning against Italian wildcard Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-4 at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Wednesday night.
Kokkinakis, ranked No 71, will face No 16 seed Hubert Hurkacz next.
Shanghai Masters, other first-round results (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Juncheng Shang
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Luca Van Assche
- Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Sebastian Ofner
- J.J. Wolf vs. Pedro Cachin
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Quentin Halys
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Jordan Thompson vs. Terence Atmane
- Pavel Kotov vs. Arthur Fils
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Laslo Djere
- Beibit Zhukayev vs. Stefano Napolitano
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
- Philip Sekulic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Alexandre Muller
- Nuno Borges vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Roman Safiullin vs. Andy Murray
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Richard Gasquet
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Cristian Garin
- Marcos Giron vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
- Max Purcell vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
- Corentin Moutet vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Denis Yevseyev vs. Marton Fucsovics
- James Duckworth vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Fabian Marozsan: wednesday
- Jaume Munar vs. Rigele Te: wednesday
- Dane Sweeny (Q) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-3
- Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-7 (6), 6-2, 2-1 ret.
- Brandon Nakashima beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Dusan Lajovic beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Yoshihito Nishioka beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
