Pospisil beats Mannarino in qualifying for Shanghai. That's an impressive win against a top 50 player. Still needs one more win for the main draw.
Nice win for Thiem on HC.
Pretty easy tournament for Djokovic.
Great to see Vasek back in a MS1000 main draw. Schwartzman is a decent draw but he's a tough opponent. Hopefully Vasek can get more, much needed, points and stay healthy.
He beat Schwartzman! Has Sousa in the second round.
He's racked up some impressive wins in his comeback, but it's such a hard road back to the top 100.
Shapovalov beats Tiafoe as well.
Murray wins in three sets over Londero in Shanghai. I love watching Londero. The word for him is "scrappy," but unlike most scrappy players, he doesn't wait for opponent's mistakes, he goes for winners. He played an excellent first set, but Andy hung in there and won going away. It is a long road back but Murray seems to be making steady progress.
Felix gets by Bublik (ret. in the 2nd). Tsitsipas next.
Vasek up a set against Sousa.
And Vasek gets the straight sets win and played very well again.
This win moves him back into the top 200.
Another big win for Pospisil. Getting his ranking up to top 200 is big.
Looks like his next match will likely be against Medvedev. Not sure how well he will match up with him, especially with how well Medvedev is playing.
If he can have a couple of good runs a the Challenger level over the remainder of the year, he can get himself closer to top 100, and start 2020 being able to get into decent tournament draws once his protected ranking status is done.
At least he gets the day off tomorrow.
But yeah, tall task against Medvedev but it wouldn't be a total shock if Vasek won.
Felix/Tsitsipas and Denis/Djockovic tomorrow.
Felix is 2-0 against Tsitsipas but I think that might end tomorrow. Hopefully not
Felix needs a big win against a top player to get his confidence up, and he's definitely in Tsitsipas head.
On that topic though, it looks like Felix and Denis will both be qualifying for NextGen finals. Tsitsipas is there as well, but will likely withdraw to save himself for the real finals. Will be interesting to see if they both play. Felix already turned down one big exhibition event recently. We'll see if he opts out for this one.