The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and the Italian Jannik Sinner They returned to the hotel not knowing their respective round of 16 rivals, although they felt good about resolving their round of 32 ties. They are two of the four privileged to have said this Sunday at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000.
The rain factor caused chaos this weekend at the tournament. There were cancellations and postponements, with only those directed to the center court of the Qi Zhong Tennis Center, the only stadium in the complex with the protection of a retractable roof, spared.
Of the 17 individual matches scheduled this Sunday, only four were played. There are 9 left to play in the second round, which has been going on since Saturday, and another 4 in the third, which didn’t even start this Sunday.
Imbalance is affected Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner because he still has no rival in the second round. The Spanish are waiting for the resolution of the French conflict in between Gael Monfils and Ugo Humbert, while the Italian will face the best coke among the Spanish Roberto Carballes and the American Ben Shelton.
For now the problem is not serious for them because the local organization and the ATP decided to solve the accumulated delay causing the least possible damage to what was established according to the event plans.
There is room for Alcaraz and Sinnercalled to meet in the semifinals, with round of 16 matches still scheduled for Tuesday.
Suffer greater effects Novak Djokovicwho returned on Saturday and will now spend two days without competing. He is already in the second round, but not his opponent, who is leaving the Cobolli-Wawrinka.
The 4 third round matches of the upper part, of Sinner and Alcaraz, and the 9 of the second round of the lower part of the draw, of Djokovic and Zverev, are scheduled for this Monday. Of these thirteen, five were secured by playing in a central roofed facility. The other eight were spread across different tracks in early migration.
Monday’s program in Shanghai
Center court (06:00 hours)
Taylor Fritz (USA/7)-Terence Atmane (Fra)
Zizou Bergs (Bel)-Grigor Dimitrov (Bul/9) 3-6, 4-2
Frances Tiafoe (USA/13)-Yi Zhou (Chn)
(not before 12:30 pm)
Matteo Berrettini (Ita)-Holger Rune (Din)
Flavio Cobolli (Ita)-Stan Wawrinka (Sui)
Show court (06:00 hours)
Gael Monfils (Fra)-Ugo Humbert (Fra/16)
Jordan Thompson (Aus/26)-Tallon Griekspoor (Ned)
Track 4 (06:00 hours)
Roberto Carballés (Esp)-Ben Shelton (USA/14)
Marcos Giron (USA)-Karen Khachanov (Rus/24)
Track 7 (06:00 h)
Tomas Machac (Che)-Aleksandre Vukic (Aus)
Lorenzo Musetti (Ita/15)-David Goffin (Bel)
In this solution, the goal is the round of 16 of the upper half and the third round of the lower half to be played on Tuesday. In the program they are together Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic and Zverev.
Source: La Verdad
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