Sinner gets Indian Wells campaign off to a winning start
Jannik Sinner won against Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-3, 6-0 on Friday evening and will face the winner of the match between German Jan-Lennard Struff, the No 25 seed, and Croat Borna Coric in the next round
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Jannik Sinner, the No 3 seed, moved into the third round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-3, 6-0 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday evening.
The Italian played slick tennis from the get go, making 13 winners to just one unforced error across the match.
Sinner, ranked No 3, will play the winner of the match between German Jan-Lennard Struff, the No 25 seed, and Croat Borna Coric next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters, Kokkinakis, ranked No 99, beat American Marcos Giron (6-3, 7-5).
Indian Wells Masters 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Karen Khachanov vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Borna Coric
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Milos Raonic vs. Holger Rune
- Fabio Fognini vs. Sebastian Baez
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Tomas Machac
- Roman Safiullin vs. Sebastian Korda
- Gael Monfils vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Cameron Norrie vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Patrick Kypson vs. Ugo Humbert
- Tommy Paul vs. Alex Michelsen
- Novak Djokovic vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Alexander Bublik vs. Juncheng Shang
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Ben Shelton vs. Jakub Mensik
- Lucas Pouille vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Andrey Rublev vs. Andy Murray
- Alexander Zverev vs. Christopher O’Connell: friday
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (31) beat Constant Lestienne (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Alex De Minaur (10) beat Taro Daniel: 6-1, 6-2
- Francisco Cerundolo (22) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-2, 3-1 ret.
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