Australian Open: Molcan moves into second round

Slovak Alex Molcan defeated Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-7 (3), 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday night.

Molcan, ranked No 53, will face the winner of the match between Vasek Pospisil and No 6 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):

• Tomas Machac vs. Casper Ruud
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Novak Djokovic
• Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Alex De Minaur
• Denis Kudla vs. Roman Safiullin
• João Sousa vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Brandon Holt
• Enzo Couacaud vs. Hugo Dellien
• Richard Gasquet vs. Ugo Humbert
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Jenson Brooksby
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Alexander Zverev
• Chun-Hsin Tseng vs. Alexei Popyrin
• John Isner vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Tommy Paul
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Andy Murray
• David Goffin vs. Laurent Lokoli
• Ben Shelton vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Taylor Fritz vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
• Maxime Cressy vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
• Max Purcell vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Alexander Bublik
• J.J. Wolf vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Pedro Cachin
• Filip Krajinovic vs. Holger Rune
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Oleksii Krutykh
• Zizou Bergs vs. Laslo Djere
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Mattia Bellucci vs. Benjamin Bonzi
• Facundo Bagnis vs. Daniel Evans
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jeremy Chardy
• Andrey Rublev vs. Dominic Thiem
• Marcos Giron vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Constant Lestienne: monday
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Lloyd Harris: monday
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (3) beat Quentin Halys: 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (6)
• Vasek Pospisil vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime: monday
• Cameron Norrie (11) beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-0, 6-3
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Rinky Hijikata: monday
• Marton Fucsovics beat Federico Coria: 4-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Christopher Eubanks (WC) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• John Millman (WC) beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3
• Dalibor Svrcina (Q) beat Jaume Munar: 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
• Jiri Lehecka beat Borna Coric (21): 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Nuno Borges: 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-1
• Jason Kubler (WC) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Taro Daniel beat Ernesto Escobedo (Q): 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Rafael Nadal (1) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1
• Frances Tiafoe (16) beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6)
• Karen Khachanov (18) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-0
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Brandon Nakashima: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-7 (10), 6-4
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Pavel Kotov (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Denis Shapovalov (20) beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka (31) beat Mikael Ymer: 6-4, 6-2, 7-5
• Sebastian Korda (29) beat Cristian Garin: 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Hubert Hurkacz (10) beat Pedro Martinez: 7-6 (1), 6-2, 6-2
• Corentin Moutet beat Yibing Wu (WC): 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
• Francisco Cerundolo (28) beat Guido Pella: 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
• Jannik Sinner (15) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-4, 6-0, 6-2
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Gregoire Barrere: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Botic van de Zandschulp (32) beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
• Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Oscar Otte: 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-5