Shanghai Masters: Popyrin advances to third round
Alexei Popyrin won against Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday night. He’ll face the winner of the match between Belgian Zizou Bergs and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 9 seed, in the next round
Alexei Popyrin (Antoine Couvercelle/Panoramic)
Australian Alexei Popyrin, the No 20 seed, defeated Serb Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3, 6-2 to reach the third round of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center on Saturday night.
Popyrin, ranked No 24, will play the winner of the match between Belgian Zizou Bergs and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 9 seed, next.
Kecmanovic, ranked No 55, won against Australian Rinky Hijikata (6-2, 6-2) in the previous round of the Shanghai tournament.
Shanghai Masters 1000, other second-round results (Qi Zhong Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.995.555, most recent results first):
- Mattia Bellucci vs. Alexander Zverev
- Alex Michelsen vs. Novak Djokovic
- Jordan Thompson vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. David Goffin
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Roman Safiullin vs. Alexander Bublik
- Marcos Giron vs. Karen Khachanov
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Holger Rune
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Yi Zhou
- Taylor Fritz vs. Terence Atmane: saturday
- Zizou Bergs vs. Grigor Dimitrov: saturday
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Jaume Munar: saturday
- Jannik Sinner (1) beat Taro Daniel: 6-1, 6-4
- Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Brandon Nakashima (32): 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Francisco Cerundolo (27): 7-6 (7), 7-5
- Jakub Mensik beat Andrey Rublev (6): 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Juncheng Shang: 6-2, 6-2
- Aleksandar Vukic (Q) beat Casper Ruud (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Yibing Wu (WC) beat Nicolas Jarry (25): 6-2, 6-1
- Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-5, 7-5
- Tomas Machac (30) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry (31) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-5
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Arthur Fils (21): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5)
- Ugo Humbert (16) beat Arthur Cazaux: 6-3, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi (29) beat Zachary Svajda (Q): 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-4
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (10) beat Kei Nishikori (WC): 7-6 (6), 6-4
- Gael Monfils beat Sebastian Baez (22): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo (19) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 6-3, 6-2
- Alexandre Muller beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (18): 6-3, 6-2
- Tommy Paul (11) beat Fabio Fognini: 6-1, 6-3
- Ben Shelton (14) beat Denis Shapovalov (Q): 6-3, 7-5
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