Thanasi Kokkinakis plays two tiebreaks in more than three hours on court in his loss to world number 12 Jannik Sinner, but Alex de Minaur and Nick Kyrgios have much easier matches.
Nick Kyrgios and Alex de Minaur have marched on as fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis lost a titanic encounter that would have befitted a much grander stage than the Cincinnati Masters first round.Nick Kyrgios beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, and Alex de Minaur took down qualifier Henri Laaksonen
The Wimbledon runner-up, chasing a 17th win from 19 matches, next faces big-hitting American Taylor Fritz as he continues his promising build-up to the US Open, starting in less than two weeks. The Australian number one now meets Canada's seventh-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime, who had a first-round bye.
In a thrilling encounter full of excellent, attacking tennis, Sinner denied Kokkinakis 6-7, 6-4, 7-6.
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