Hurkacz beats Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 in Shanghai Masters second round

Right · 2Hubert Hurkacz beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Shanghai Masters on Friday 9 October, ending Djokovic's tournament in his first match there. 1 2 Right · 1Djokovic, 39, was playing three days after winning the title in Beijing, where he has never lost a match on the professional Tour. 1 Right · 1Hurkacz, the 2023 Shanghai champion, hit 13 aces in the one-hour-and-28-minute match, and Djokovic was broken in the fourth game of the second set after a double fault, which gave Hurkacz a 3-1 lead. 1

Right · 1It was Hurkacz's first win over Djokovic in nine meetings on the Tour; he had reached the Beijing semifinals but ended that match early because of a strained muscle. 1 Right · 1Djokovic said he did not feel himself on court, called the surface very quick and unlike Beijing, and said losing a serve could be enough to lose a match; he called Hurkacz's serve almost impossible to return. 1 Right · 1Hurkacz called it a challenging match and said he was pleased with how he performed in important moments; he will face either Lorenzo Musetti or Chinese wildcard Zhou Yi in the third round. 1

Right · 1Elsewhere on the day, top seed Alexander Zverev beat Wu Yibing 6-4, 7-6 (7/4), and third seed Ben Shelton beat Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 7-6 (8/6). Qualifier Rei Sakamoto beat Andrey Rublev 6-4, 6-4. 1