Rolex Shanghai Masters—Shanghai, China
MacHac Upsets Alcaraz in Shanghai; Zheng Advances in Wuhan
Thursday’s motion on the Rolex Shanghai Masters noticed No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz crash out of the occasion, dropping to No. 30 seed Tomas MacHac 7-6(5), 7-5.
Needing one hour and 54 minutes to prevail, MacHac adopted up his victory over No. 11 seed Tommy Paul on Wednesday by including 5 aces and 31 winners.
Reaching the fourth spherical of the US Open this 12 months, MacHac additionally defeated Novak Djokovic on the Geneva Open earlier this season when he was world No. 1.
MacHac will subsequent face the present world No. 1 Jannik Sinner within the semifinals.
Sinner continued his spectacular successful streak over No. 5 seed Daniil Medvedev, defeating the Russian for the seventh time in eight conferences.
Prevailing by a scoreline of 6-1, 6-4, Sinner shall be bidding for his seventh match victory this week in Shanghai.
Friday’s schedule will spotlight four-time former winner Novak Djokovic taking over Jakub Mensik, and No. 7 seed Taylor Fritz will face David Goffin.
Goffin upset No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev on Wednesday.
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Dongfeng Voyah · Wuhan Open—Wuhan, China
Olympic Gold Medalist Qinwen Zheng reached the quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open on Thursday, defeating Canadian Leylah Fernandez 5-7, 6-3, 6-0. Needing two hours and 29 minutes to progress, Zheng hit 5 aces and broke serve on six events.
Zheng will subsequent face No. 3 seed Jasmine Paolini. The Italian superior previous Erika Andreeva 6-3, 6-2.
Different winners on the day noticed high seed Aryna Sabalenka dismiss Yulia Putintseva 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 and Xinyu Wang upset No. 2 seed Jessica Pegula 6-3, 7-5.
No. 4 seed Coco Gauff, No. 8 seed Daria Kasatkina and Hailey Baptiste additionally reached the quarterfinals.
Friday’s motion will characteristic all 4 quarterfinal encounters.
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