PA - Australian John Millman has won through to the second round of the Indian Wells tennis tournament in California.
Unseeded Millman downed American Alexander Sarkissian 6-2 6-0 on Friday to set up a second-round meeting with 30th seed Steve Johnson of the US.
Earlier on Friday, German teenager Alexander Zverev rode a momentum shift against injured Croatian Ivan Dodig to advance 3-6 7-5 6-3.
Dodig slipped in the third game of the second set, his racquet frame bouncing off the court and hitting him in the right cheek.
"I thought he twisted his ankle at first, but then I saw him bleeding pretty close to the eye and I was like, wow, he probably hit himself with the racquet," said Zverev, who won in two-and-a-quarter hours.
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"I don't know what happened, to be quite honest. I didn't see it, but he started bleeding quite heavily then."
After a medical timeout, Zverev took control.
He next faces Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Mikhail Kukushkin will face Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori after beating Spain's Daniel Munoz de la Nava 7-6 (7-1) 6-2. The Kazakh has lost to Nishikori five times.
Gilles Muller beat Victor Estrella-Burgos 7-5 6-3 with 16 aces to advance to a showdown with fourth-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
Canadian Vasek Pospisil outlasted young American Jared Donaldson 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (2-7) 6-3, while Guillermo Garcia-Lopez beat Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-2 7-6 (7-2).
