Indian Wells Masters: Lehecka sets up Rublev rematch

Czech Jiri Lehecka reached the second round of the Indian Wells Masters by beating Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (4), 7-5 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday.

Lehecka, ranked No 47 in the world, will play No 6 seed Andrey Rublev for the second time in three weeks, having beaten the Russian in the quarter-finals in Doha last week.

Rublev and Lehecka are tied at 1-1 in their head-to-head with the Russian winning their first match in Belgrade on clay last year.

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

• Cristian Garin (Q) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-4, 6-2
• Yibing Wu vs. Jaume Munar: wednesday
• 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
• 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
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Guido Pella
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Brandon Holt
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Filip Krajinovic
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Quentin Halys
• Leandro Riedi vs. Jack Draper
• Alexander Bublik vs. Tung-lin Wu
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Maximilian Marterer
• Jordan Thompson vs. Gael Monfils
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Federico Coria

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