Australian Open: Kotov beats Rinderknech in five sets to score first Grand Slam main draw win

Russian Pavel Kotov reached the second round of the Australian Open by winning against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech in five sets.

Kotov, ranked No 64 in the world, won 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3 in four hours and 42 minutes at Melbourne Park on Sunday.

This was the 25-year-old’s first victory in a Grand Slam main draw – he had lost in the opening round the four previous times he played in the main draw at a major.

The Russian, ranked No 64, will play the winner of the match between Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli and Chilean Nicolas Jarry, the No 18 seed, next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58,910,000):

• Fabian Marozsan beat Marin Čilić: 6-1, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Francisco Cerundolo (22) beat Dane Sweeny (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
• Jannik Sinner (4) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-4, 7-5, 6-3
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Adam Walton (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
• Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
• Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
• Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
• Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
• Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
• James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
• SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
• Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
• Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dominic Thiem
• Alex De Minaur vs. Milos Raonic
• Omar Jasika vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki
• Alexandre Muller vs. Hugo Grenier
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Federico Coria
• Ugo Humbert vs. David Goffin
• Maximilian Marterer vs. Nuno Borges
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Taro Daniel
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Karen Khachanov
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
• Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Gael Monfils
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Jakub Mensik
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Jordan Thompson
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Constant Lestienne vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• James Duckworth vs. Luca Van Assche
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Ben Shelton
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Marc Polmans
• Terence Atmane vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Patrick Kypson vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Sebastian Korda vs. Vit Kopriva
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Hugo Gaston
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Borna Coric
• Novak Djokovic vs. Dino Prizmic
• Quentin Halys vs. Lloyd Harris
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jason Kubler
• J.J. Wolf vs. Sebastian Baez
• Taylor Fritz vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
• Jesper De Jong vs. Pedro Cachin
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Cristian Garin
• Tomas Machac vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Andrey Rublev