Australian Open: Ruusuvuori into second round
Emil Ruusuvuori edged out Max Purcell 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) on Wednesday night and will play Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, in the next round
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Finn Emil Ruusuvuori moved into the second round of the Australian Open by edging out Australian qualifier Max Purcell 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11) at Melbourne Park on Wednesday night.
Ruusuvuori, ranked No 46, will face Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Brandon Holt
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini
- Maxime Cressy vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Enzo Couacaud vs. Hugo Dellien
- John Isner vs. Adrian Mannarino
- João Sousa vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Denis Kudla vs. Roman Safiullin: wednesday
- Michael Mmoh (LL) beat Laurent Lokoli: 4-6, 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-2
- Richard Gasquet vs. Ugo Humbert: wednesday
- Novak Djokovic (4) beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-3, 6-4, 6-0
- Casper Ruud (2) beat Tomas Machac: 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin (WC) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Alex De Minaur (22) beat Yu Hsiou Hsu (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
- Jenson Brooksby beat Christopher O’Connell: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2
- Tommy Paul beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 6-1, 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Ben Shelton beat Zhizhen Zhang: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
- Holger Rune (9) beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
- Alexander Zverev (12) beat Juan Pablo Varillas (LL): 4-6, 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Andy Murray beat Matteo Berrettini (13): 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (6)
- Taylor Fritz (8) beat Nikoloz Basilashvili: 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
- J.J. Wolf beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Pablo Carreno Busta (14) beat Pedro Cachin: 7-6 (4), 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30) beat Alexander Bublik: 6-0, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Nicolas Jarry (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic (26): 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Diego Schwartzman (23) beat Oleksii Krutykh (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Laslo Djere beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Grigor Dimitrov (27) beat Aslan Karatsev: 7-6 (3), 7-5, 6-2
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Mattia Bellucci (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Daniel Evans (25) beat Facundo Bagnis: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Jeremy Chardy beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 1-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
- Andrey Rublev beat Dominic Thiem (WC): 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
- Daniil Medvedev (7) beat Marcos Giron: 6-0, 6-1, 6-2
- Constant Lestienne beat Thiago Monteiro: 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Lloyd Harris beat Lorenzo Musetti (17): 6-4, 6-1, 6-7, 2-6, 7-6 (4)
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (3) beat Quentin Halys: 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (6) beat Vasek Pospisil: 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Cameron Norrie (11) beat Luca Van Assche (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-0, 6-3
- Rinky Hijikata (WC) beat Yannick Hanfmann (Q): 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Alex Molcan beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-7 (3), 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4
- 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
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