Roland-Garros: Nishikori comes through epic to make second round

Japanese Kei Nishikori moved into the second round of Roland-Garros by beating Canadian qualifier Gabriel Diallo 7-5, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-5 at Roland-Garros in Paris.

Nishikori, ranked No 350, will play the winner of the match between American Ben Shelton, the No 15 seed, and Frenchman Hugo Gaston next.

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

• Nuno Borges vs. Tomas Machac
• Mariano Navone vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Gregoire Barrere vs. Alexander Bublik
• Roman Andres Burruchaga vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Jaume Munar vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Alex De Minaur vs. Alex Michelsen
• 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
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Casper Ruud
• Valentin Vacherot vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Adam Walton
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Giulio Zeppieri vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Alexei Popyrin vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Taylor Fritz vs. Federico Coria
• Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Constant Lestienne
• Novak Djokovic vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
• Gael Monfils vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Roman Safiullin
• Pedro Cachin vs. Tommy Paul
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Alexander Zverev vs. Rafael Nadal
• Mattia Bellucci vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Luca Van Assche vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Fabio Fognini vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Filip Misolic vs. Otto Virtanen
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Cameron Norrie vs. Pavel Kotov
• Gustavo Heide vs. Sebastian Baez
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Arthur Fils
• Jozef Kovalik vs. Marcos Giron
• Karen Khachanov vs. Sumit Nagal
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Jannik Sinner
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Max Purcell vs. Henri Squire
• Ben Shelton vs. Hugo Gaston
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Andy Murray: sunday
• Terence Atmane vs. Sebastian Ofner: sunday
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Corentin Moutet: sunday
• Laslo Djere vs. Daniel Altmaier: sunday
• 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
• 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