2021 AO - Day 1 Men’s Singles

Day One of the first Grand Slam tournament of 2021 and despite all the media hype of ‘turmoil’ and ‘chaos’, the event has begun on time, COVID safe, and with spectators. A wonderful achievement by organisers.

2021 Australian Open - a Grand Slam tournament, on Hard, in Melbourne, Australia, 8-21 February 2021.

Defending champion:

Novak Djokovic (2) who defeated Dominic Thiem (5) 6-4 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-4

Men’s first round singles results:

Seeds

Novak Djokovic (1) defeated Jeremy Chardy 6-3 6-1 6-2

Taylor Fritz (27) defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6(6) 3-6 6-2 7-6(6)

Stan Wawrinka (17) defeated Pedro Sousa 6-3 6-2 6-4

Milos Raonic (14) defeated Federico Coria 6-3 6-3 6-2

Emil Ruusuvuori defeated Gael Monfils (10) 3-6 6-4 7-5 3-6 6-3

Dusan Lajovic (23) defeated qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky 5-7 6-4 6-3 5-7 6-4

Adrian Mannarino (32) defeated Dennis Novak 6-2 6-4 7-6(2)

Alexander Zverev (6) defeated Marcos Giron 6-7(8) 7-6(5) 6-3 6-2

Dominic Thiem (3) defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6(2) 6-2 6-3

Ugo Humbert (29) defeated Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4 6-7(3) 6-3

Grigor Dimitrov (18) defeated Marin Cilic 6-4 6-2 7-6(5)

Pablo Carreno Busta (15) defeated Kei Nishikori 7-5 7-6(4) 6-2

Denis Shapovalov (11) defeated Jannik Sinner 3-6 6-3 6-2 4-6 6-4

Felix Auger-Aliassime (20) defeated lucky loser Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-2 6-4 6-2

Egor Gerasimov defeated Benoit Paire (25) 6-2 2-6 7-6(5) 7-5

Diego Schwartzman (8) defeated qualifier Elias Ymer 7-6(3) 6-4 2-6 6-2

Other

Frances Tiafoe defeated Stefano Travaglia 7-6(5) 6-2 6-2

Reilly Opelka defeated Lu Yen-Hsun 6-3 7-6(2) 6-3

Marton Fucsovics defeated wildcard Marc Polmans 4-6 6-3 6-1 6-7(3) 6-3

Corentin Moutet defeated John Millman 6-4 6-7(4) 3-6 6-2 6-3

Pedro Martinez defeated Yoshihito Nishioka 6-7(3) 6-1 6-1 6-1

Alexander Bublik defeated Aljaz Bedene 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-4

Miomir Kecmanovic defeated Kamil Majchrzak 6-2 6-4 6-3

Qualifier Maxime Cressy defeated lucky loser Taro Daniel 7-6(1) 7-6(3) 6-4

Dominik Koepfer defeated lucky loser Hugo Dellien 7-5 6-2 6-4

Nick Kyrgios defeated qualifier Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-4 6-4 6-4

Wildcard Alex Bolt defeated Norbert Gumbos 6-2 6-2 4-6 6-3

Jiri Vesely defeated qualifier Kimmer Coppejans 6-4 3-6 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3

Qualifier Bernard Tomic defeated Yuichi Sugita 3-6 6-1 4-1 (retired)

James Duckworth defeated lucky loser Damir Dzumhur 6-3 6-2 6-4

Qualifier Aslan Karatsev defeated Gianluca Mager 6-3 6-3 6-4

Lucky loser Alexandre Muller defeated Juan Ignacio Londero 4-6 6-3 6-0 6-3