Swiss Indoors: Rare win for Auger-Aliassime as Canadian moves into second round

Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 6 seed, won against Swiss wildcard Leandro Riedi 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Swiss Indoors at the Halle Saint-Jacques in Basel on Wednesday evening.

Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 19, will play Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp next.

Basel ATP500, other first-round results (Halle Saint-Jacques, EUR 2.196.000, most recent results first):

• Casper Ruud (2) beat Alexander Bublik: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Taylor Fritz (3) beat Max Purcell: 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4)
• Ugo Humbert beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (3)
• Alexander Shevchenko (Q) beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
• Nicolas Jarry (7) beat Adrian Mannarino: 7-6 (6), 6-7 (2), 6-4
• Holger Rune (1) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 1-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (5) beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-4, 6-4
• Hubert Hurkacz (4) beat Dusan Lajovic: 7-6 (2), 6-3
• Dominic Stricker (WC) beat Benjamin Hassan (Q): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Thiago Seyboth Wild (LL): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-3
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Sebastian Korda (8): 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-2
• Andy Murray beat Yannick Hanfmann: 7-5, 6-4
• Jan-Lennard Struff beat Christopher Eubanks: 7-6 (7), 6-4
• Sebastian Baez beat Christopher O’Connell (Q): 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3