JOHN Millman is through to the second round of the US Open after upsetting Georgian 22nd seed, Nikoloz Basilashvili in a memorable win. Millman is most famous for his upset victory in the third round against Roger Federer a couple of years ago at Flushing Meadows, and he showed why he is capable of running deep in this year’s tournament. He joined top Australian and 21st seed, Alex de Minaur and unseeded Chris O’Connell in the Round of 64 after the trio all posted victories on day two of the tournament.

Millman won 6-1 6-4 6-4 over the Georgian in an hour and 59 minutes to set up a second round clash against Frances Tiafoe. The Australian served six aces and won 80 per cent of his points in a really clean performance, whilst not being broken throughout the match, saving all seven chances from his opponent. Basilashvili only hit 14 winners but a massive 56 unforced errors compared to the Australia’s 18 and 35 in a more controlled manner.

Meanwhile de Minaur won through with a straight sets win over Andrej Martin 6-4 6-3 7-5 to kick off his return to tennis after a first round loss at Western & Southern Open last week. He now locks horns with French veteran, Richard Gasquet. O’Connell had an upset of his own with a come-from-behind win over Serbia’s Laslo Djere, 4-6 6-4 7-6 6-4 in three hours and nine minutes. O’Connell will need to be at his best when he takes on third seed, Daniil Medvedev in the second round. De Minaur said he was relieved to get through unscathed.

“Obviously this is my first singles win in a very long time, since the ATP Cup, so it’s good to get the cobwebs out,” de Minaur said. “It was never going to be a perfect match, so I’m glad I was able to escape that in three sets. “Very happy.

“(I’m) Definitely going to have to lift my game. “He’s (Gasquet) a very skilled veteran, [an] experienced opponent. He knows how to win matches. “It’s going to be a very tough one. I’ve got to make sure I’m up for it and I’m very intense and focussed the whole match.”

In terms of match of the day, there could only be one – Andy Murray‘s come-from-behind victory over Yoshihito Nishioka. The Grand Slam winner and former world number one had to fight as hard as ever to get through to the second round, playing the longest match of the tournament by far before winning 4-6 4-6 7-6 7-6 6-4 in four hours and 39 minutes.

Serving 14 aces and hitting 59 winners, Murray was far from clean with 13 double faults and 77 unforced errors, but he just kept fighting and won three more points than his Japanese opponent. Murray was also forced his way back from a match point in the fourth set, but again the Brit came and forced a tiebreaker. He now has to face 15th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who luckily for Murray had to engage in a four-set epic that saw three tiebreakers and last three hours and 51 minutes before defeating Brazilian Thiago Monteiro.

Aside from Basilashvili, the only other seed to fall on day two was 29th seed Guido Pella, who lost to American wildcard J.J. Wolf. It took four sets, but Wolf bounced back from a shocking second set to win 6-2 0-6 6-3 6-3 and book a place in the next round. He joined Tiafoe and late entrant Ernesto Escobedo as the only Americans remaining in the bottom half of the ATP US Open draw, after Tommy Paul, Mackenzie McDonald, Tennys Sandgren, Sam Querrey and Bradley Klahn all departed at the hands of Grigor Dimitrov, Casper Ruud, Roberto Bautista-Agut, Andrey Kuznetsov and Sumit Nagal respectively.

Other seeds to advance through to the Round of 64 included Dominic Thiem, Matteo Berrettini, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov, Daniel Evans and Marin Cilic. Khachanov in particular had to work for a spot, coming from two sets down against ATP Next Gen Finals winner Jannik Sinner, to salute 3-6 6-7 6-2 6-0 7-6. The other seed to make it through was Canadian and 25th seed Milos Raonic who defeated Leonardo Mayer to set up an all-Canadian Round of 64 match with Vasek Pospisil.

In terms of unseeded winners on the day, Emil Ruusuvuori, Gregoire Barrere, Marton Fucsovics, Roberto Carballes-Baena, Miomir Kecmanovic, Corentin Moutet and Norbet Gombos all advanced.