This week’s ATP Tour tennis action at Chengdu and Shenzhen is now almost down to the second round stage and at Chengdu fifth seed Monfils was the highest profile to lost against South African qualifier Harris. Eighth seed Sandgren lost against veteran Kukushkin and sixth and seventh seeds survived the first round, Aussie veteran Ebden knocking out Donskoy and seventh seed Sousa scraping past Symzcek in a tough three set win.

At Szhenzen Chinese Wild Card almost caused the upset of the day coming from a set down to push Murray close but unfortunately the Chinse play Cheng had to retire injured at 4-2 down in the third set. The only seed to fall so far was eighth seed veteran Seppi who lost a close three setter against veteran Ramos-Vinolas.

The top four seeds enter the tournament from today At Chengdu top-seed Fognini is due to face qualifier Bemelmans, second seed Chung faces a tough opener against Lucky loser fellow NextGen star Aug-Aiassime, third seed Basilsashvili faces Querrey for the second time and fourth seed Mannarino faces the veteran Jaziri for the first time and the Frenchman leads the head-to-head 2-0.

At Shenzhen top-seed Goffin faces a nightmare second round match against Murray who is still on the road of recovery from a lengthy injury lay off. Third seed Coric faces British number two Norrie and the result will help determine how far Norrie has come on this year. Finally, fourth seed Dzhumur faces a tricky tie against qualifier Ramanathan from India who adopts serve and volley tactics but Dzhumur is one of the best returns on tour so should prevail on this occasion.

Selections:

None.