Indian Wells Masters: Kokkinakis to play top seed Alcaraz next after beating wild card Holt

Australian qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis reached the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by defeating American wild card Brandon Holt 6-4, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

Kokkinakis, ranked No 94, will face top seed Carlos Alcaraz next.

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Indian Wells Masters, other first-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Gregoire Barrere vs. Jack Sock
• Dominic Thiem vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Borna Gojo vs. Richard Gasquet
• Mikael Ymer vs. Rinky Hijikata
• J.J. Wolf vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Alex Molcan vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
• Pedro Martinez vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Andy Murray
• Ben Shelton vs. Fabio Fognini: thursday
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Guido Pella: thursday
• 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