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10/10 18:19 CDT Medvedev advances at Shanghai in 1st match since
disqualification. Mustached Alcaraz wins opener
Medvedev advances at Shanghai in 1st match since disqualification. Mustached
Alcaraz wins opener
SHANGHAI (AP) --- Daniil Medvedev has won his first match since being
disqualified at the China Open for hitting a spectator in the eye with a ball
he hit into the stands.
Medvedev beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on
Saturday at the Shanghai Masters, an ATP 1000 tennis event.
Medvedev, who now holds a 10-2 career edge over Struff, had been disqualified
during his semifinal Monday against Novak Djokovic for hitting the spectator
with a ball the Russian player had hit into the stands at Beijing.
Medvedev, who apologized after the incident, saying it was an accident, lost
the $285,000 prize money he would have received for making the semifinals in
Beijing.
It was the fifth-seeded Medvedev's first match since the disqualification. He
had a bye in the first round.
No trouble for mustached Alcaraz
Second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz, who won last week's Japan Open, had a 6-3, 6-3
win over Juan Manuel Cerundolo in a night match in Shanghai. It extended his
winning streak to seven matches.
While Alcaraz had a beard and the start of a mustache in his Japan Open trophy
photos, he only had the mustache in Saturday night's match in Shanghai.
"It's going to stay for (the) week. I always wanted to step on the court at
least once with the mustache," Alcaraz said after win. "So before Tokyo, it
was, it was like, ?Alright, if I win the tournament, we all have to do the
mustache'."
In other second-round matches Saturday, fourth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime
beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5.
No. 1 Jannik Sinner withdrew from Shanghai this week when he announced he was
taking the rest of 2026 off because of a right knee injury.
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