The 26-year-old is through to the Shanghai Masters third round after a convincing 6-4 6-2 win over Argentina’s Camilo Ugo Carabelli.<\/p>\n
The seventh seed and world No.7 enjoyed a first-round bye and needed just 88 minutes to claim his 48th victory of the season and set up a clash against Kamil Majchrzak.<\/p>\n
The Pole himself enjoyed a 6-4 6-0 second-round triumph over 29th-seeded American Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n
De Minaur lost to Italian Jannik Sinner in the China Open semi-finals earlier this week, his 11th straight loss to the world No.2.<\/p>\n
Fellow Aussie, 31-year-old Chris O’Connell was eliminated in Shanghai though, by 23rd-seeded Canadian Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n
O’Connell, currently No.103 in the world but with a career-high ranking of 53, suffered a 6-3 6-2 loss to left-hander Shapovalov, who will next face 15th seed Jiri Lehecka.<\/p>\n
The Czech teenager scored a 6-4 7-5 win over Frenchman Quentin Halys.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on Saturday, Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka upset 13th-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev 2-6 6-1 6-4 and 12th seed Felix Auger Aliassime of Canada beat Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n
Sinner, who went on to win the title in Beijing, is scheduled to play Germany’s Daniel Altmaier in the evening session.<\/p>\n
With AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26-year-old is through to the Shanghai Masters third round after a convincing 6-4 6-2 win over Argentina’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-189206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}