Shanghai Masters: Kokkinakis advances to second round, beats wild card Fognini

Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis advanced to the second round of the Shanghai Masters by winning against Italian wildcard Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-4 at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Wednesday night.

Kokkinakis, ranked No 71, will face No 16 seed Hubert Hurkacz next.

Shanghai Masters, other first-round results (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Yosuke Watanuki vs. Juncheng Shang
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Luca Van Assche
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Sebastian Ofner
• J.J. Wolf vs. Pedro Cachin
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Aslan Karatsev vs. Quentin Halys
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Jordan Thompson vs. Terence Atmane
• Pavel Kotov vs. Arthur Fils
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Laslo Djere
• Beibit Zhukayev vs. Stefano Napolitano
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
• Philip Sekulic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Alexandre Muller
• Nuno Borges vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Roman Safiullin vs. Andy Murray
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Richard Gasquet
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Cristian Garin
• Marcos Giron vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
• Max Purcell vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
• Corentin Moutet vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Denis Yevseyev vs. Marton Fucsovics
• James Duckworth vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Fabian Marozsan: wednesday
• Jaume Munar vs. Rigele Te: wednesday
• Dane Sweeny (Q) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-3
• Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-7 (6), 6-2, 2-1 ret.
• Brandon Nakashima beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
• Dusan Lajovic beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Yoshihito Nishioka beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2)