Tournament seeds Marin Cilic and Alex Bogomolov will be in first-round action on Tuesday, set to take on respective opponents Sergei Bubka and Igor Kunitsyn. The players look to reach the round of 16.
Gilles Simon and Janko Tipsarevic returns to hard-court action, as the ATP World Tour moves to St. Petersburg for the final week of October. The two are seeded first and second at the St. Petersburg Open.
Santiago Giraldo knocked another seed, No. 14 Jurgen Melzer, out of the running in Shanghai, with Alexandr Dolgopolov joining the Colombian in the third round.
The Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov will take on Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos in the Shanghai second round. Jurgen Melzer will face Santiago Giraldo.
Tomas Berdych will be back on the court three days after capturing the Beijing title. Standing in his way of the Shanghai third round is countryman Radek Stepanek.
Croatia’s Marin Cilic and Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine will take the court, as the Shanghai Masters round 1 wraps up.
Australia’s Bernard Tomic got a tricky first round opponent in the big-serving South African, Kevin Anderson.
Tokyo runner-up Rafael Nadal and Beijing champion Tomas Berdych will get back on the court this week in Shanghai. They are in a section of the draw that also includes Janko Tipsarevic, Florian Mayer, and David Nalbandian.
Third seed Tomas Berdych won his first ATP World Tour title in more than two years after rallying to oust Marin Cilic in three sets. The Czech successfully boosted his career title tally to six on Sunday.
World No. 10 Tomas Berdych looks to capture his first title of the season as he faces an in-form Marin Cilic for the Beijing title. The players are set to contest their fourth career meeting Sunday afternoon.
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