Shanghai Masters: Shelton beats Munar to book spot in third round
Ben Shelton defeated Jaume Munar 6-4, 6-4 in Shanghai. He’ll play the winner of the match between Roman Safiullin and Alexander Zverev in the next round
Ben Shelton competes in Toronto 2023 Icon SMI/Panoramic
American Ben Shelton, the No 19 seed, beat Spaniard Jaume Munar 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Stadium.
Shelton, ranked No 20, will face the winner of the match between Russian Roman Safiullin and German Alexander Zverev, the No 9 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Shanghai tournament, Munar, ranked No 82, won against Chinese wildcard Rigele Te (6-2, 6-4).
Shanghai Masters, other second-round results (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Taylor Fritz
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Quentin Halys vs. Andrey Rublev
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Diego Schwartzman
- Jannik Sinner vs. Marcos Giron
- Beibit Zhukayev vs. Karen Khachanov
- Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Daniel Evans
- Cristian Garin vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Arthur Fils vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Ugo Humbert
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Tommy Paul vs. Sebastian Ofner
- J.J. Wolf vs. Cameron Norrie
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Rinky Hijikata
- Terence Atmane vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Roman Safiullin vs. Alexander Zverev
- Sebastian Korda vs. Yunchaokete Bu
- Dane Sweeny vs. Sebastian Baez
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Zhizhen Zhang: friday
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis: friday
- Yu Hsiou Hsu (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti (17): 6-3, 6-4
- Brandon Nakashima beat Holger Rune (3): 6-0, 6-2
- Marton Fucsovics beat Felix Auger-Aliassime (14): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-3
- Francisco Cerundolo (20) beat Mackenzie McDonald: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5)
- Fabian Marozsan beat Alex De Minaur (11): 6-3, 7-5
- Dusan Lajovic beat Tallon Griekspoor (23): 6-4, 3-2 ret.
- Christopher Eubanks (29) beat Yannick Hanfmann: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Casper Ruud (8) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 7-5, 6-0
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