Swiss Indoors: Rare win for Auger-Aliassime as Canadian moves into second round
Felix Auger-Aliassime won against Leandro Riedi 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday evening and will face Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp in the next round
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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
