Australian Open: Monfils through to second round
Gael Monfils defeated Yannick Hanfmann 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 on Monday and will play Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the No 30 seed, in the next round

Frenchman Gael Monfils beat German Yannick Hanfmann 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday.
Monfils, ranked No 76, will play Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the No 30 seed, next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
- Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
- Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
- Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
- Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
- James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
- Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
- Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dominic Thiem
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Omar Jasika vs. Hubert Hurkacz: monday
- Alex De Minaur vs. Milos Raonic: monday
- Alexandre Muller vs. Hugo Grenier: monday
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Nuno Borges: monday
- Ugo Humbert vs. David Goffin: monday
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Federico Coria: 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5)
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
- Christopher Eubanks beat Taro Daniel: 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic: monday
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Jordan Thompson: monday
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Karen Khachanov: monday
- Jakub Mensik (Q) beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-3, 7-5, 7-5
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (7) beat Zizou Bergs (LL): 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
- Luca Van Assche beat James Duckworth (WC): 6-7 (2), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Adrian Mannarino (20) beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0
- Alexei Popyrin beat Marc Polmans (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (23) beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Ben Shelton (16) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-2, 7-6 (2), 7-5
- Daniil Medvedev (3) beat Terence Atmane (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 1-0 ret.
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Patrick Kypson (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Sebastian Korda (29) beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2
- Flavio Cobolli (Q) beat Nicolas Jarry (18): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5
- Lorenzo Musetti (25) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-2
- Hugo Gaston (LL) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
- Frances Tiafoe (17) beat Borna Coric: 6-3, 7-6 (7), 2-6, 6-3
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Dino Prizmic (Q): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4
- Quentin Halys beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2)
- Daniel Elahi Galan beat Jason Kubler (WC): 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (8)
- Sebastian Baez (26) beat J.J. Wolf: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 3-0 ret.
- Taylor Fritz (12) beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Jesper De Jong (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
- Christopher O’Connell beat Cristian Garin: 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
- Tomas Machac beat Shintaro Mochizuki (LL): 7-5, 6-1, 7-5
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (6)
- 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
- Pavel Kotov beat Arthur Rinderknech: 7-5, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3
- 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
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