Australian Open: O’Connell beats Garin to reach second round

Australian Christopher O’Connell moved into the second round of the Australian Open by defeating Chilean Cristian Garin 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 at Melbourne Park on Sunday.

This is the third time in six main draw appearances that O’Connell has advanced to the second round at his home Grand Slam, with a third round finish in 2022 being his best performance to date.

O’Connell, ranked No 71, will play the winner of the match between Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut and American Ben Shelton, the No 16 seed, next.

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

• Sebastian Baez (26) beat J.J. Wolf: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 2-0 ret.
• Taylor Fritz vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta: sunday
• Jesper De Jong (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
• 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
• 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
• 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