Shanghai Masters: Nishioka squeaks past Altmaier in third set tiebreak, meets Ruud next
Nishioka edged out Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) in the first round on Wednesday
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Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka edged out Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) to advance to the second round of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Wednesday.
Nishioka, ranked No 38, will face No 8 seed Casper Ruud next.
Shanghai Masters, other first-round matches (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8,800,000):
- Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-7 (6), 6-2, 2-1 ret.
- Brandon Nakashima beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Dusan Lajovic beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Quentin Halys
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
- Pavel Kotov vs. Arthur Fils
- Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Sebastian Ofner
- J.J. Wolf vs. Pedro Cachin
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Laslo Djere
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Juncheng Shang
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Luca Van Assche
- Jordan Thompson vs. Terence Atmane
- Philip Sekulic vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Beibit Zhukayev vs. Stefano Napolitano
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Alexandre Muller
- Nuno Borges vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Roman Safiullin vs. Andy Murray
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Richard Gasquet
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Cristian Garin
- Marcos Giron vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
- Max Purcell vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Jaume Munar vs. Rigele Te
- Corentin Moutet vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Denis Yevseyev vs. Marton Fucsovics
- James Duckworth vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Dane Sweeny vs. Taro Daniel
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini
