The ATP Tour Shanghai Masters 1000 Series in China is now well underway and the third round line-up should be completed today. Second seed Roger Federer made sure lighting didn’t strike twice yesterday, by beating Spanish veteran Ramos-Vinolas, who beat him hear in a three set thriller back in 2015. There haven’t been any major upsets so far this week, ninth seed Monfils was the biggest casualty losing against young Polish star Hurkacz, on-fire third seed Medvedev had not played since winnng St Petersburg title last month, but there were no signs of rustiness or nerves from the supremely talented Russian who swept aside Britih number three Cam Norrie 6-3 6-1.

Compatriot Rublev continued the positive vibes for Russia knocking out twelwfth seed Croatian Coric, Challenger Tour journeyman Pospisil from Canada caught they eye with two solid wins against ATP veterans stalwarts Schwartzman and Sousa and tenth seed Fognini impressed reaching the third round by recording two gritty hard fought wins against hard-court sepcialists veteran Amercian Querrey and Andy Murray, which was a nailbiting three set marathon. Other noteable wins so far this week were eleventh seed Berettinni thrashing German Struf 6-2 6-1, thirteenth seed Goffin making light work of French veteran Gasquet and sixteenth seed Isner beating the in form young Aussie De Minaur.

The pick of today’s matches should be between NextGen stars Auger-Aliasimme and sixth seed Tsitsipas. Auger-Aliassime leads the head-to-head 2-0, winning both matches this year at Queens and at the Rogers Cup in Canada, but Tsitsipas should be at the top of his game and ready to turn the tables having reached a final last week. There should be plenty of fireworks between big hitters Fritz from USA and seventh seed Khachanov from Russia, this is there first meeting, and on current form things should go the way of Khachanov in three sets. Finally, Djokovic kicks off his campaign today against Shapovalov and it should be a comfortable win for the World number one who as already beaten the young Canadian twice this year on clay and hard courts losing just one set.