{"id":927928,"date":"2026-10-10T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:42:14","slug":"daniil-medvedev-advances-at-shanghai-in-his-first-match-since-his-china-open-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927928\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev advances at Shanghai in his first match since his China Open disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SHANGHAI \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Medvedev, who now holds a 10-2 career edge over Struff, was disqualified during his semifinal loss Monday to Novak Djokovic for hitting the spectator with a ball the Russian player had hit into the stands at Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Medvedev, who apologized after the incident, saying it was an accident, lost the US$285,000 prize money he would have received for making the semifinals in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the fifth-seeded Medvedev\u2019s first match since the disqualification. In the 96-player Shanghai field, the top 32 seeds receive first-round byes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In other early second-round matches Saturday, fourth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz, who won last week\u2019s Japan Open, was scheduled to play Juan Manuel Cerundolo in a night match in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No. 1 Jannik Sinner withdrew from Shanghai this week when he announced he was taking the rest of 2026 off due to a right knee injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANGHAI \u2014 Daniil Medvedev has won his first match since being disqualified at the China Open for hitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,318720,82,593],"class_list":["post-927928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-danill-medvedev","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}