Australian Open: Galan advances to second round after 4 hour, 59-minute win

Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan moved into the second round of the Australian Open by defeating Australian wildcard Jason Kubler 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (8) at Melbourne Park on Sunday.

Galan, ranked No 89, will face Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 26 seed, next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58,910.000):

• Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
• Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
• Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
• Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
• Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
• James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
• Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
• Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dominic Thiem
• Alex De Minaur vs. Milos Raonic
• Omar Jasika vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Alexandre Muller vs. Hugo Grenier
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Federico Coria
• Ugo Humbert vs. David Goffin
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Nuno Borges
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Taro Daniel
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Karen Khachanov
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
• Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Gael Monfils
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Jakub Mensik
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Jordan Thompson
• Zizou Bergs vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Constant Lestienne vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• James Duckworth vs. Luca Van Assche
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Ben Shelton
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Marc Polmans
• Terence Atmane vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Patrick Kypson vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Sebastian Korda vs. Vit Kopriva
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Hugo Gaston
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Borna Coric: sunday
• Novak Djokovic vs. Dino Prizmic: sunday
• Quentin Halys beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2)
• Sebastian Baez beat J.J. Wolf: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 2-0 ret.
• Taylor Fritz (12) beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Jesper De Jong (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
• Christopher O’Connell beat Cristian Garin: 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
• Tomas Machac beat Shintaro Mochizuki (LL): 7-5, 6-1, 7-5
• Andrey Rublev (5) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
• Fabian Marozsan beat Marin Čilić: 6-1, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Francisco Cerundolo (22) beat Dane Sweeny (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
• Pavel Kotov beat Arthur Rinderknech: 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3
• Jannik Sinner (4) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-4, 7-5, 6-3
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Adam Walton (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1