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Tenth seed Frances Tiafoe was locked in a final-set battle with Lorenzo Sonego when rain pressured the match to be suspended.
Motion continued below the roof inside Qizhong Forest Sports activities Metropolis Enviornment
Saturday’s play on the Rolex Shanghai Masters was disrupted after persistent rain pressured matches on outdoors courts to be suspended on the ATP Masters 1000 occasion.
After a few brief stoppages earlier within the day, play was halted simply after 4 p.m. native time in China. The motion continued below the retractable roof of the Qizhong Tennis Middle’s Stadium Courtroom, the place Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Jannik Sinner and prime seed Carlos Alcaraz claimed second-round victories. Taylor Fritz‘s conflict with Yosuke Watanuki is about to spherical out the day’s play.
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Matches involving seeded gamers Frances Tiafoe, Cameron Norrie and Ugo Humbert will all be completed on Sunday because of the inclement climate. Norrie leads J.J. Wolf 3-6, 7-5, 3-2 with a break within the third set, whereas Tiafoe trails Lorenzo Sonego 6-2, 2-6, 1-2 with the pair on serve within the decider. Humbert and Botic van de Zandschulp are stage at 2-2 within the opening set of their second-round conflict.