Shanghai Masters: Lajovic defeats Wawrinka to move into second round

Serb Dusan Lajovic reached the second round of the Shanghai Masters by beating Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 7-6 (7) at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Wednesday.

Lajovic, ranked No 54, will play No 23 seed Tallon Griekspoor next. With this, the Serb has now recorded a win at all nine ATP Masters Series events.

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Shanghai Masters, other first-round matches (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8,800,000):

• Brandon Nakashima beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
• 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
• Corentin Moutet vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Denis Yevseyev vs. Marton Fucsovics
• James Duckworth vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Jaume Munar vs. Rigele Te
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini
• Dane Sweeny vs. Taro Daniel
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yunchaokete Bu
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Yoshihito Nishioka