Chinese history in Melbourne: Shang becomes first man from his country to win main draw match at Australian Open

Chinese qualifier Juncheng Shang scripted history for his country at the Australian Open, by becoming the first male player from his country to win a main draw singles match at the first Grand Slam of the season.

Shang, aged 17 and a former junior world No 1, edged out German Oscar Otte 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-5 to move into the second round at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Shang, ranked No 194 and also the youngest player in the men’s singles draw this year, will face the winner of the match between German Daniel Altmaier and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 16 seed, next.

Australian Open (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24,297,942, most recent results first):

• Hubert Hurkacz (10) beat Pedro Martinez: 7-6 (1), 6-2, 6-2
• 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
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Novak Djokovic
• Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Alex De Minaur
• Nick Kyrgios vs. Roman Safiullin
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Alexander Zverev
• 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
• Chun-Hsin Tseng vs. Alexei Popyrin
• John Isner vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Tomas Machac vs. Casper Ruud
• 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
• Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Quentin Halys
• Vasek Pospisil vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Constant Lestienne
• Alex Molcan vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Christopher Eubanks vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Lloyd Harris
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Rinky Hijikata
• John Millman vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• Sebastian Baez vs. Jason Kubler
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Borna Coric
• Cameron Norrie vs. Luca Van Assche
• Federico Coria vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Ernesto Escobedo vs. Taro Daniel
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Nuno Borges
• Jaume Munar vs. Dalibor Svrcina
• Rafael Nadal vs. Jack Draper
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Karen Khachanov vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Pavel Kotov
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Mikael Ymer vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Sebastian Korda vs. Cristian Garin
• Corentin Moutet vs. Yibing Wu