Shanghai Masters: Nishioka squeaks past Altmaier in third set tiebreak, meets Ruud next

Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka edged out Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) to advance to the second round of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Stadium on Wednesday.

Nishioka, ranked No 38, will face No 8 seed Casper Ruud next.

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

• Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-7 (6), 6-2, 2-1 ret.
• Brandon Nakashima beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
• Dusan Lajovic beat Stan Wawrinka: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• 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
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Jaume Munar vs. Rigele Te
• Corentin Moutet vs. Mackenzie McDonald
• Denis Yevseyev vs. Marton Fucsovics
• James Duckworth vs. Yannick Hanfmann
• Dane Sweeny vs. Taro Daniel
• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fabio Fognini