First-time ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finalist Roberto Bautista Agut and two-time Shanghai Rolex Masters champion Andy Murray meet in Sunday’s championship match. This is the third meeting between the two and Murray owns a 2-0 record, winning at 2014 Wimbledon and 2015 Munich, both in straight sets. Both players have not dropped a set en route to the final. They each have been broken four times while each breaking opponents 17 times. The No. 15-seeded Bautista Agut is trying to become the first Spaniard to win the title in the tournament’s eight year history. Nadal was runner-up in 2009 and Ferrer in 2011. Murray, who won titles in 2010-11, is making his fourth Shanghai final appearance (2-1). He is attempting...
The semi-finals at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Saturday feature the top two players in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, along with No. 15 seed Roberto Bautista Agut and 2014 finalist Gilles Simon. Djokovic and Murray, who have combined to win five of the previous seven Shanghai titles, are on course to meet for the 35th time (third in Shanghai) and fifth this season (first since Roland Garros). But first, they have business at hand in the semi-finals. In the first singles match on Stadium Court, Djokovic brings a 5-0 career record (3-0 on hard) against Bautista Agut. They last met this year in the fourth round at Roland Garros, with Djokovic rallying from a set...
The quarter-finals at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Friday are led by the top two players in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. They have combined to win five of the previous seven tournament titles with Murray winning in 2010-11 and Djokovic in 2012-13, 2015. In the opening match on Stadium, No. 16 seed Roberto Bautista Agut and No. 9 seed/last year’s finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga meet for the fifth time (tied 2-2). Tsonga won both of last year’s meetings and Bautista Agut has claimed both of this year’s contests, from a set down in the Auckland semi-finals (saving match point) and in the 3R at ATP Masters 1000 Miami (in a third set tie-break). The Spaniard is...
With five players already locking in their spots for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, Thursday’s action at the Shanghai Rolex Masters will see sixth seed Gael Monfils and No. 11 seed David Goffin square off in a third-round clash that is crucial for both of their chances to qualify for London for the first time. Monfils is currently No. 6 in the Emirates ATP Race to London with 3,535 points, while Goffin is No. 11 with 2,465 points. The Frenchman is 665 points ahead of No. 9 Berdych in the Emirates ATP Race to London, while Goffin trails No. 8 Dominic Thiem by 740 points. The winner on Thursday will receive at least 180 Emirates ATP Rankings points for...
No. 2 seed Andy Murray, No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka and No. 4 seed Rafael Nadal, along with Chinese No. 1 Di Wu, feature at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Wednesday. Play on Stadium begins with Wawrinka taking on 21-year-old qualifier Kyle Edmund, who enters at a career-high No. 48 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. The #NextGen star lost to Murray in the Beijing quarter-finals on Friday before winning matches on Saturday, Sunday and Monday in Shanghai. Edmund recently reached the fourth round at the US Open, falling to Novak Djokovic before the Serbian star was beaten by Wawrinka in a four-set final. In the second match, Wu, the only Chinese player to win an ATP Challenger Tour singles title,...
