Roland-Garros: De Minaur thrashes Michelson to move into second round

Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 11 seed, moved into the second round of Roland-Garros by defeating American Alex Michelsen 6-1, 6-0, 6-2 in Paris.

“Obviously a long day, stop, starting”, said De Minaur in reference to the rain. “More than anything mentally and also dealing with, you know, cold and rain in your face. Just had to be solid and, yeah, make sure I had good mentality today. That’s probably the most important thing.”

“Today the whole game plan was to try and get him moving. It wasn’t super easy out there because the conditions didn’t allow that, but obviously the droppy is in play, try to get angles, the slice, try to change paces. So you have to think outside the box.”

“Obviously it’s a completely different match than if it was sunny because I feel like I can probably hit through him a lot more, but today I was quite conscious of that. I felt like I did what I needed to do to get the win today.”

De Minaur, ranked No 11, will face the winner of the match between Jaume Munar and Roberto Bautista Agut next.

Paris (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):

• Novak Djokovic vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Alexander Bublik
• Roman Andres Burruchaga vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Daniel Evans vs. Holger Rune
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Hamad Medjedovic
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Luciano Darderi
• David Goffin vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: tuesday
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Constant Lestienne
• Taylor Fritz vs. Federico Coria: tuesday
• Mariano Navone vs. Pablo Carreno Busta: tuesday
• Jaume Munar vs. Roberto Bautista Agut: tuesday
• Valentin Vacherot vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: tuesday
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Adam Walton: tuesday
• Nuno Borges vs. Tomas Machac: tuesday
• Casper Ruud (7) beat Felipe Meligeni Alves (Q): 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry (28) beat Arthur Cazaux: 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4
• Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
• Fabio Fognini beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-1, 6-1, 7-5
• Gael Monfils beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Dusan Lajovic beat Roman Safiullin: 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Thiago Monteiro (Q): 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
• Denis Shapovalov beat Luca Van Assche: 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Pedro Cachin: 6-2, 6-3, 6-1
• Frances Tiafoe (25) beat Mattia Bellucci (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4
• Lorenzo Musetti (30) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 6-3, 6-3, 7-5
• Filip Misolic (Q) beat Otto Virtanen (LL): 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
• Francisco Cerundolo (23) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
• Pavel Kotov beat Cameron Norrie (32): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Alexander Zverev (4) beat Rafael Nadal: 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (18) beat Sumit Nagal: 6-2, 6-0, 7-6 (5)
• Sebastian Baez (20) beat Gustavo Heide (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Fils (29): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Jozef Kovalik (LL) beat Marcos Giron: 7-6 (3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Marton Fucsovics: 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-1
• Jannik Sinner (2) beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
• SoonWoo Kwon beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (21) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
• Ben Shelton (15) beat Hugo Gaston: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Henri Squire (Q) beat Max Purcell: 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (10)
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
• Stan Wawrinka beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
• Sebastian Ofner beat Terence Atmane (WC): 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 7-5
• Corentin Moutet beat Nicolas Jarry (16): 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
• Daniel Altmaier beat Laslo Djere: 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Sebastian Korda (27) beat Harold Mayot (WC): 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Mikhail Kukushkin (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
• Kei Nishikori beat Gabriel Diallo (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-5
• Zizou Bergs (Q) beat Alejandro Tabilo (24): 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2
• Alexandre Muller (WC) beat Luca Nardi: 6-4, 6-1, 6-3
• Richard Gasquet (WC) beat Borna Coric: 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 6-1, 6-2, 6-1
• Maximilian Marterer beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 6-2, 6-0
• Grigor Dimitrov (10) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
• Hubert Hurkacz (8) beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Jesper De Jong (Q) beat Jack Draper: 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Lorenzo Sonego beat Ugo Humbert (17): 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Pedro Martinez beat Thiago Agustin Tirante: 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Andrey Rublev (6) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5
• Brandon Nakashima beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (WC): 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2