Indian Wells: Zhang through to second round

Chinese Zhizhen Zhang edged out American wildcard Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-5 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Friday evening.

Zhang, ranked No 50, will face lucky loser Luca Nardi next.

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

• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena: friday
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov: friday
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Pavel Kotov: 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Alexandre Muller beat Hugo Grenier (Q): 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Milos Raonic beat Sumit Nagal (LL): 6-3, 6-3
• Patrick Kypson (WC) beat Ethan Quinn (Q): 6-1, 7-6 (1)
• Fabio Fognini (WC) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Arthur Fils beat Nuno Borges: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-2, 6-3
• Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat J.J. Wolf: 6-2, 6-1
• Alex Michelsen beat Jaume Munar: 6-2, 6-3
• Borna Coric beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
• Jakub Mensik (WC) beat Seong-Chan Hong (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Gael Monfils beat Max Purcell: 6-1, 6-2
• Roman Safiullin beat Daniel Evans: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
• Dusan Lajovic beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 7-5, 6-2
• Lucas Pouille (Q) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 6-3
• Constant Lestienne (Q) beat Denis Kudla (Q): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Tomas Machac beat Stan Wawrinka: 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-2
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (1), 6-4
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6)
• 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