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Recap
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat fellow Spaniard Rafael Jodar 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Sunday to win the Shanghai Masters, his first Masters 1000 title, after trailing by a set and a break.
October 19, 2026 2:09
Preview
Rafael Jodar, 20, and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina play for the Shanghai Masters title on Sunday, not before 16:30 in Shanghai (10:30 CEST), with a first top-10 ranking for Jodar and a career-high for Davidovich Fokina possible.
October 18, 2026 1:25
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina came from a set down to beat top seed Alexander Zverev, and Rafael Jodar beat Daniil Medvedev in straight sets, so the Shanghai Masters final on Sunday is all-Spanish.
October 18, 2026 0:55
News
Zverev beat De Minaur 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Shanghai semi-finals. He has already clinched the year-end No. 1, but the weekly top spot cannot be his before 2 November.
October 16, 2026 0:50
Hurkacz, the 2023 champion, won at the ninth attempt against Djokovic. The 10th seed, three days on from winning in Beijing, says he plans to play only the Paris Masters next.
October 9, 2026 15:19
Italy, who have won the last three Davis Cups, open against debutants South Korea on 25 November. Germany meet Great Britain on 26 November, and the final is on Sunday 29 November in Bologna.
October 8, 2026 12:56
Jannik Sinner ended his season on Tuesday, so Alexander Zverev is the top seed in Shanghai. Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic both arrive as champions from last week, and Valentin Vacherot defends the title.
October 7, 2026 1:06
Djokovic won the first set on a tie-break and De Minaur retired after the opening game of the second, handing him a seventh title in Beijing, where he is 34-0. A day earlier Medvedev had been defaulted from the semi-final.
October 6, 2026 15:07
Djokovic broke Zverev at 5-4 in the third set, after Zverev saved one match point, and is the first man in the Open Era to win his first 32 matches at a single tournament.
October 4, 2026 23:25
The former world No. 4 and 2014 US Open finalist lost in the first round of the Japan Open, then cried through an on-court farewell in front of a full home crowd.
October 1, 2026 15:07
Sinner has not played since the Wimbledon final and has now pulled out of Shanghai. Zverev lost to Djokovic in the Beijing quarter-finals, so the double that would have made him No. 1 on 19 October is no longer possible.
October 1, 2026 13:24
The six-time champion beat Nuno Borges 6-3, 7-6(2) on his first visit since 2015, but needed the trainer in the second set before pulling clear in the tie-break.
September 30, 2026 17:30
The 2024 champion was ranked 11th when the field was set and ninth by the time he played, and needed two three-set wins to reach a draw he would normally have entered directly.
September 29, 2026 14:40
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