Cincinnati Masters: Purcell books spot in second round

Australian wild card Max Purcell beat Tomas Machac 6-4, 7-6 (1) to move into the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Wednesday afternoon

Purcell, ranked No 68, will next face the winner of the match between Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta and American Sebastian Korda, the No 16 seed.

Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555):

• Holger Rune (15) beat Matteo Berrettini (WC): 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Nuno Borges (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Fabian Marozsan beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Arthur Fils beat Brandon Holt (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Taylor Fritz (11): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
• Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-5
• Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Nicolas Jarry: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
• Ben Shelton (12) beat Reilly Opelka (WC): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Jordan Thompson beat Ugo Humbert (13): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Alex Michelsen (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
• Jiri Lehecka beat Mariano Navone: 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Frances Tiafoe beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Luciano Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Sebastian Baez beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Karen Khachanov beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-0, 6-3
• Flavio Cobolli beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
• Gael Monfils vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Jack Draper vs. Jaume Munar

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