Indian Wells: French veteran Gasquet sets up second round showdown with Sinner

French veteran Richard Gasquet used all his experience to overcome Croatian qualifier Borna Gojo in three sets to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters on Thursday.

Gasquet, a former top 10 player and now ranked 43rd in the world, needed two hours and nine minutes to beat Gojo 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

The win was Gasquet’s 141st win at the ATP Masters 1000 level, the most for any French player.

Gasquet, who won the Auckland title in January this year, will play No 11 seed Jannik Sinner next. This will be the first meeting between the 36-year-old Frenchman and 21-year-old Sinner.

Indian Wells Masters, other first-round matches (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8,800,000):

• Rinky Hijikata (Q) beat Mikael Ymer: 6-4, 7-5
• Pedro Martinez beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4
• Andy Murray beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4
• Alex Molcan beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-3, 6-2
• Marton Fucsovics beat American J.J. Wolf: 1-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Ben Shelton beat Fabio Fognini: 6-4, 6-1
• Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Brandon Holt (WC): 6-4, 6-1
• Guido Pella beat Thiago Monteiro: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Stan Wawrinka beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
• Jack Draper beat Leandro Riedi (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) beat Quentin Halys: 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-3, 6-0
• Tung-lin Wu beat Alexander Bublik: 6-4, 6-4
• Alejandro Tabilo (Q) beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Jordan Thompson beat Gael Monfils: 6-3, 6-1
• Diego Schwartzman beat Federico Coria: 6-1, 6-2
• Jiri Lehecka beat Arthur Rinderknech: 7-6 (4), 7-5
• Cristian Garin (Q) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4, 6-2
• Yibing Wu (WC) beat Jaume Munar: 6-7 (6), 6-0, 7-6 (3)
• Taro Daniel (Q) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-1, 7-5
• Jason Kubler beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Pedro Cachin beat Nikoloz Basilashvili: 7-5, 6-3
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 4-1 ret.
• Brandon Nakashima beat John Isner: 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Marcos Giron beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (WC): 6-3, 7-5
• Ugo Humbert beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Oscar Otte beat Laslo Djere: 6-3, 7-5
• Ilya Ivashka beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-2
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Jack Sock
• Dominic Thiem vs. Adrian Mannarino

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