The men’s tennis masters Shanghai tournament held the fourth round of singles matches in Shanghai on the 9th, with world No. 1 ranked Jannik Sinner and others advancing to the quarterfinals (2024 Reuters)
[9th (Reuters)]- The fourth round of singles matches at the men’s tennis Masters Shanghai were held in Shanghai on the 9th, with world No. 1 Yannik Sinner (Italy) and others advancing to the quarterfinals.
The top-seeded Sinner faced 16th-seeded Ben Shelton (USA), who turned 22 that day, and defeated him in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6. The match record between the two was Sinner with 4 wins and 1 loss.
Sinner said of Shelton’s first serve success rate of 95% in the first set, “It was very tough. There was one second serve, and everything else was first serves. Of course, with the second serve… It’s very difficult to make a comeback, but looking at the positives, the way we finished the game was good. We tried to play a little bit more aggressively and we were able to do that.”
Third-seeded Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) won his 12th straight match with a straight-set win over Gael Monfils (France) 6-4, 7-5. They have a total of 51 wins and 9 losses this season.
Other top seeds such as 4th seed Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and 5th seed Russian Daniil Medvedev have won regularly, while 2nd seed Alexander Zverev (Germany) has won against David Goffin. We lost in straight sets to (Belgium).
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