Round 2 in Shanghai: Mixed Bag of Results for Seeded Players, Alcaraz Makes Winning Debut

Spherical 2 in Shanghai means the seeded gamers land within the draw, and it was a blended bag of outcomes for these fortunate sufficient to obtain a first-round bye.

Casper Ruud made a profitable Shanghai debut with a one-sided win over Yoshihito Nishioka. Nonetheless, fellow Scandinavian Holger Rune was rocked by Brandon Nakashima in straight units.

Different seeds to fall included Alex de Minaur, who the gifted Fabian Marozsan outhit, whereas Lorenzo Musetti crashed out to the Hsu Yu Hsiou, who’s enjoying in his first-ever Masters 1000.

Roman Safiullin then backed up his win towards Andy Murray by gaining revenge over ninth seed Sascha Zverev, whom he misplaced to within the Chengdu last, with an much more resounding victory.

Spherical of 64 Rolex Shanghai Masters Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Carlos Alcaraz (1)
Gregoire Barrere
6-2 7-5

Daniil Medvedev (2)
Cristian Garin
6-3 6-3

Brandon Nakashima
Holger Rune (3)
6-0 6-2

Stefanos Tsitsipas (4)
Rinky Hijikata (Q)
6-4 6-2

Andrey Rublev (5)
Quentin Halys
6-4 7-5

Jannik Sinner (6)
Marcos Giron
7-6(7) 6-2

Taylor Fritz (7)
Yosuke Watanuki
7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-4

Casper Ruud (8)
Yoshihito Nishioka
7-5 6-0

Roman Safiullin
Alexander Zverev (9)
6-3 6-1

Lorenzo Sonego
Frances Tiafoe (10)
2-6 6-2 6-3

Fabian Marozsan
Alex de Minaur (11)
6-3 7-5

Tommy Paul (12)
Sebastian Ofner
6-3 6-0

Karen Khachanov (13)
Beibit Zhukayev (Q)
7-6(1) 4-6 6-2

Marton Fucsovics
Felix Auger-Aliassime (14)
7-6(3) 4-6 6-3

J.J. Wolf
Cameron Norrie (15)
6-3 5-7 7-6(4)

Hubert Hurkacz (16)
Thanasi Kokkinakis
7-6(5) 6-4

Yu Hsiou Hsu (Q)
Lorenzo Musetti (17)
6-3 6-4

Grigor Dimitrov (18)
Aleksandar Vukic
6-4 6-3

Ben Shelton (19)
Jaume Munar
6-4 6-4

Francisco Cerundolo (20)
Mackenzie McDonald
7-6(4) 7-65

Matteo Arnaldi
Jan-Lennard Struff (21)
6-3 3-6 6-4

Nicolas Jarry (22)
Terence Atmane (Q)
7-5 6-2

Dusan Lajovic
Tallon Griekspoor (23
6-4 3-2 (RET)

Arthur Fils
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (24)
6-2 7-5

Sebastian Baez (25)
Dane Sweeny (Q)
6-2 6-4

Sebastian Korda (26)
Yunchaokete Bu (WC)
6-1 6-4

Diego Schwartzman (WC)
Jiri Lehecka (27)
6-4 3-6 6-2

Zhizhen Zhang
Tomas Martin Etcheverry (28)
4-6 6-3 6-4

Christopher Eubanks (29)
Yannick Hanfmann
4-6 6-3 6-2

Daniel Evans (30)
Mikhail Kukushkin (Q)
6-2 3-0 (RET)

Adrian Mannarino (31)
Chun-Hsin Tseng (Q)
6-2 6-2

Ugo Humbert (32
Botic van de Zandschulp
6-4 1-6 6-2

Rune’s Tough Patch Continues

Holger Rune hasn’t gained back-to-back matches since Wimbledon, and his tough interval continued in Shanghai, falling to a 6-0, 6-2 towards Nakashima.

The Dane remains to be a candidate for the Tour Finals in Turin, however given his current kind and the factors he’s defending, he’ll battle to make the highest eight.

Like Rune, Nakashima has additionally had a poor run of kind, though his rocky patch extends to the complete season with little or no in the best way of wins.

Nonetheless, he was capable of choose up the primary top-10 win of his profession, breaking serve 5 instances within the match to progress into the final 32 comfortably.

Alcaraz Makes Successful Debut

Carlos Alcaraz made a good begin to his Shanghai marketing campaign with a 6-2, 7-5 victory towards the competent Gregoire Barrere.

Alcaraz, who remains to be enjoying with strapping on his left thigh, made a lightening begin to lead 4-0 within the first set, however Barerre did begin to play effectively; his solely concern was on function Alcaraz was capable of finding his toes in too many return video games which finally made the distinction.

I had only one follow right here in Shanghai after which the match. I feel he was extra used to those situations. He had extra follow, a match within the bag, so it was actually tough to adapt my recreation in a brand new metropolis, new situations, however I feel I did fairly effectively. I performed actually centered, I attempted to take classes from the final match in Beijing and tried to be a greater participant. I attempted to not make the errors I did in Beijing and I feel in the present day I did fairly effectively. Alcaraz on the fast turnaround from Beijing.

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