Australian Open: Italy’s Arnaldi moves into second round on Melbourne debut

Italian Matteo Arnaldi reached the second round of the Australian Open by beating Australian wildcard Adam Walton 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.

The 22-year-old Italian was making his debut at Melbourne Park and his fourth in a Grand Slam main draw- he reached the round of 16 at last year’s US Open in his last Grand Slam appearance.

Arnaldi smacked 16 aces and hit 57 winners, against just one ace and 21 winners for the 24-year-old Aussie, who was making his main draw debut.

Arnaldi, ranked No 41, will play the winner of the match between Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 10 seed, and Canadian Milos Raonic next.

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

• Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
• Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
• Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
• Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
• Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
• James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
• SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
• Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
• Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• 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
• Matteo Berrettini 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
• Novak Djokovic vs. Dino Prizmic
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jason Kubler
• Quentin Halys vs. Lloyd Harris
• Taylor Fritz vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
• Jesper De Jong vs. Pedro Cachin
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Cristian Garin
• Tomas Machac vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
• J.J. Wolf vs. Sebastian Baez
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Andrey Rublev
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Marin Čilić
• Dane Sweeny vs. Francisco Cerundolo: sunday
• Pavel Kotov vs. Arthur Rinderknech: sunday
• Jannik Sinner vs. Botic van de Zandschulp: sunday
• Jaume Munar beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1