Sebastian Korda moves into third round at Shanghai
Sebastian Korda won against Yunchaokete Bu 6-1, 6-4 on Friday. He’ll face the winner of the match between Chilean Cristian Garin and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, in the next round
American Sebastian Korda, the No 26 seed, moved into the third round of the Shanghai Masters by winning against Chinese wildcard Yunchaokete Bu 6-1, 6-4 at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Friday afternoon.
Korda, who reached the Astana final last week (loss to Mannarino), has won seven of nine matches since the US Open.
Korda, ranked No 26, will play the winner of the match between Chilean Cristian Garin and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, next.
In the previous round of the Shanghai tournament, Bu, ranked No 186, benefited from the abandonment of Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (6-7 (6), 6-2, 2-1).
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 Baez (25) beat Dane Sweeny (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (28): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Hubert Hurkacz (16) beat Thanasi Kokkinakis: 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Ben Shelton (19) beat Jaume Munar: 6-4, 6-4
- 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