Indian Wells Masters: Shelton defeats Fognini, faces Fritz in second round

American Ben Shelton beat Italian Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-1 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday.

Shelton, ranked No 41, will face No 4 seed Taylor Fritz next.

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
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Andy Murray
• Pedro Martinez vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• J.J. Wolf vs. Marton Fucsovics: thursday
• Alex Molcan vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
• Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q) beat Brandon Holt (WC): 6-4, 6-1
• 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