Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo won 16 men’s singles in the Rolex Shanghai Masters Tennis Championship with a 12-minute victory on Saturday night.
Diallo has twelve minutes in 32 rounds against David Goffin, while the Belgian player is 3-0 in retirement due to injury.
Diallo will face the winner of the match between Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo and Belgium’s Zizou Bergs.
In the other 32 games, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ontario plans to play Jiri Lehecka of Czechia, while Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal plans to play Jesper de Jong of Netherlands.
Meanwhile, the Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, who served large-scale service, allowed fourth-ranked Taylor Fritz to beat the fourth round 6-4, 7-5.
Mpetshi Perricard fell 12 A in nine games at Fritz and took a break in each game as he made his first tour win against the Americans in an hour and 25 minutes to have his last 16 meetings with the 10th seed Holger Rune.
In other early matches on Sunday, Rune beat Ugo Humbert of 21 seeds 6-4, 6-4, while Zizou Bergs made Francisco Cerundolo of 19 seeds 7-6 (1) (1), 6-3 against Francisco Cerundolo of 19 seeds 6-3.
Jannik Sinner, who won the China Open in Beijing, plans to play Tallon Griekspoor later on Sunday in the third round.
Novak Djokovic also appeared in court later Sunday in the third round against Yannick Hanfmann. Djokovic bids for a record fifth championship at the Shanghai Masters.
Carlos Alcaraz, who won the Japan Open last week, was out of Shanghai due to a minor illness.
– Documents with the Associated Press
