The Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, seeded n°3, beat the Chinese Juncheng Shang without being worried by the score (6-2, 6-2) and reached the third round of the Shanghai tournament on Saturday night session, at Qi Shanghai Zhong Tennis Center.
After his 3h21 marathon less than three days ago to win the title in Beijing against Jannik Sinner, Alcaraz did not tremble at all against the rising star of Chinese tennis. He only left two games per set to the recent winner of the Chengdu tournament. This is the 10th consecutive victory for the Spaniard, the 49th in 2024.
“I’m not used to playing against players younger than me. But I’m happy to know that there are many players younger than me, aged 18, 19 or 20. They have a lot of potential. Juncheng plays tennis well. He won his first ATP title. I’m sure he will climb the rankings. He’s going to get better, that’s for sure. I’m happy to be able to win this kind of match. At the net, he said to me “it’s a pleasure to share the court with you”. This kind of thing that I hear from them, for me, it’s great,” rejoiced the main person concerned after the meeting.
Alcaraz, 2nd ATP player in the world, will face Chinese wild card Yibing Wu in the third round of the Chinese tournament.
Shang, 51st in the ATP world, won against wild card Chak Lam Coleman Wong (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round of the Shanghai Masters 1000.
The other posters for the second round in Shanghai (Masters 1000, Qi Zhong Tennis Center, hard, 8,995,555 USD, results displayed from newest to oldest):
- Mattia Bellucci – Alexander Zverev: scheduled for Saturday
- Alex Michelsen – Novak Djokovic: scheduled for Saturday
- Jordan Thompson – Tallon Griekspoor: scheduled for Saturday
- Lorenzo Musetti – David Goffin: same day programme
- Flavio Cobolli – Stan Wawrinka: scheduled for Saturday
- Marcos Giron – Karen Khachanov: scheduled for Saturday
- Matteo Berrettini – Holger Rune: scheduled for Saturday
- Roman Safiullin – Alexander Bublik: scheduled for Saturday
- Frances Tiafoe – Yi Zhou : scheduled for Saturday
- Jiri Lehecka – Jaume Munar: scheduled for Saturday
- Taylor Fritz – Terence Atmane: scheduled for Saturday
- Zizou Bergs – Grigor Dimitrov: scheduled for Saturday
- Alexei Popyrin – Miomir Kecmanovic : programmé samedi
- Jannik Sinner – Taro Daniel: scheduled for Saturday
- Yosuke Watanuki – Brandon Nakashima : scheduled for Saturday
- Alexander Shevchenko – Francisco Cerundolo: scheduled for Saturday
- Andrey Rublev – Jakub Mensik : programmé samedi
- Aleksandar Vukic (Q) – Casper Ruud (N.8) : 6-4, 6-4
- Yibing Wu – Nicolas Jarry (N.25) : 6-2, 6-1
- Daniil Medvedev (N.5) – Thiago Seyboth Wild : 7-5, 7-5
- Tomas Machac (N.30) – Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 1-6, 7-6 [3]6-4
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry (N.31) – Botic van de Zandschulp : 7-6 [5]3-6, 7-5
- Roberto Carballes Baena – Arthur Fils (N.21): 7-6 [4]7-6 [5]
- Ugo Humbert (N.16) – Arthur Cazaux : 6-3, 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi (N.29) – Zachary Svajda (Q): 6-7 [2]6-2, 6-4
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (N.10) – Kei Nishikori (WC) : 7-6 [6]6-4
- Gael Monfils – Sebastian Baez (N.22): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo (N.19) – Arthur Rinderknech : 6-3, 6-2
- Alexandre Muller – Felix Auger-Aliassime (N.18) : 6-3, 6-2
- Tommy Paul (N.11) – Fabio Fognini: 6-1, 6-3
- Ben Shelton (N.14) – Denis Shapovalov (Q) : 6-3, 7-5
