Indian Wells: Clutch Vukic sees off qualifier Mochizuki

Australian Aleksandar Vukic moved into the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by winning against Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday evening.

Vukic, ranked No 69, will play top seed Novak Djokovic next.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.495.555, most recent results first):

• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Milos Raonic vs. Sumit Nagal
• Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong
• Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans
• Gael Monfils vs. Max Purcell
• Lucas Pouille vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla: thursday
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Tomas Machac: thursday
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Taro Daniel beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4, 6-1
• Andy Murray beat David Goffin (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Fabian Marozsan beat Jurij Rodionov (LL): 6-3, 6-2
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Luca Van Assche: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3)
• Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Pedro Cachin: 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-1
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (3)
• Christopher O’Connell beat Jack Draper: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Thanasi Kokkinakis beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 7-5