Shanghai - ATP Masters 1000

The next week - three tournaments will be contested across the ATP and WTA Tours. The big one is the 2019 ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai.

Rolex Shanghai Masters - an ATP Masters 1000 tournament, on Hard Decoturf, in Shanghai, China, 6-13 October 2019.

Defending champion:

Novak Djokovic (2) who defeated Borna Ćorić (13) 6-3 6-4

The following players withdrew after entering but before the main draw was published:

- Kevin Anderson replaced by Frances Tiafoe 

- Juan Martin del Potro replaced by Lorenzo Sonego 

- Laslo Djere replaced by Filip Krajinović 

- Nick Kyrgios replaced by Albert Ramos-Viñolas 

- Rafa Nadal replaced by Pablo Cuevas 

- Kei Nishikori replaced by Sam Querrey 

- Milos Raonic replaced by Mikhail Kukushkin 

- Stan Wawrinka replaced by Miomir Kecmanovic 

Novak Djokovic, world number 1, is top seed.

The other seeds are all in the top 26

The top 8 seeds have first round byes.

First round results 

- Hubert Hurkacz defeated wildcard Zhang Zhizhen 7-6(5) 6-4

- Joao Sousa defeated Filip Krajinovic 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)

- Taylor Fritz defeated Fernando Verdasco 7-6(2) 6-7(5) 6-4

- Nikoloz Basilashvili (15) defeated Radu Albot 4-6 6-1 6-3

- Denis Shapovalov defeated Frances Tiafoe 6-4 6-2

- Gaël Monfils (9) defeated Lorenzo Sonego 7-5 6-7(1) 6-3

- Qualifier Cameron Norrie defeated Gilles Simon 7-5 6-2

- Qualifier Vasek Pospisil defeated Diego Schwartzman (14) 7-6(2) 6-2

- Fabio Fognini (10) defeated Sam Querrey 6-4 6-2

- Wildcard Andy Murray defeated qualifier Juan Ignacio Londero 2-6 6-2 6-3

- Cristian Garin defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-1 6-4

- Benoit Paire defeated qualifier Marco Cecchinato 6-2 7-5

- Qualifier Jérémy Chardy defeated Kyle Edmund 6-4 7-6(3)

- Mikhail Kukushkin defeated Miomir Kecmanović 7-6(4) 6-4

- Albert Ramos-Viñolas defeated Marin Cilic 6-4 6-4

- Qualifier Pablo Carreno Busta defeated wildcard Zhang Ze 6-3 2-6 6-4