Monfils races into second round at Indian Wells

Frenchman Gael Monfils defeated Australian Max Purcell 6-1, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Thursday night.

Monfils, ranked No 54, will face No 8 seed Hubert Hurkacz next.

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

• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Milos Raonic vs. Sumit Nagal
• Hugo Grenier vs. Alexandre Muller
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lukas Klein
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Fabio Fognini vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Pavel Kotov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Ethan Quinn vs. Patrick Kypson
• Arthur Fils vs. Nuno Borges
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. J.J. Wolf
• Juncheng Shang vs. Jordan Thompson
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jaume Munar
• Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Ofner: thursday
• Jakub Mensik vs. Seong-Chan Hong: thursday
• Roman Safiullin vs. Daniel Evans: thursday
• 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