Australian Open: De Minaur races into third round

Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 10 seed, defeated Italian Matteo Arnaldi 6-3, 6-0, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday night.

De Minaur, ranked No 10, will face the winner of the match between Russian Pavel Kotov and Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli next.

In the previous round, the Australian benefited from the abandonment of Canadian Milos Raonic (6-7 (6), 6-3, 2-0).

Arnaldi, ranked No 41, won against Australian wildcard Adam Walton (7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4) in the previous round.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Sumit Nagal vs. Juncheng Shang
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Tommy Paul vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Casper Ruud
• Cameron Norrie vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alexander Zverev vs. Lukas Klein
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Hugo Grenier
• Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Jakub Mensik vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Ugo Humbert vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Arthur Fils vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Holger Rune vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Novak Djokovic vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Tomas Machac
• Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Andrey Rublev
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Karen Khachanov
• Taylor Fritz vs. Hugo Gaston
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Jaume Munar
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Luca Van Assche
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Ben Shelton
• Pavel Kotov vs. Flavio Cobolli: wednesday
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Sebastian Baez: wednesday
• Jannik Sinner (4) beat Jesper De Jong (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-2