On October 26th local time, the ATP500 Vienna ended the first round of men's singles competition, and the 2nd seed Titsipas defeated the local player Novak who played with wild cards 7-6(2)/6-2. After struggling to win the first set with a tiebreak, Tsitsipas completely dominated the situation in the second set. Tsitsipas will face Croatian star Churić in the second round, which will also be a repeat of the men's singles final of this year's Cincinnati Masters. At that time, Churić won the first championship in the Masters, and Tsitsipas ushered in a good opportunity to revenge.
6 seed Sina also successfully passed the first round. He defeated Chile player Galin 6-3/6-2, and will fight Argentina player Cerendolo in the second round. Sina currently ranks 15th in the rankings leading to the year-end finals, nearly 900 points away from Aliasim, who is seventh. Sina needs to win the championship back-to-back with next week's Paris Masters to have the hope of being shortlisted for the year-end finals.
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The top seed Medvedev easily defeated Baslashvili 6-2/6-2 to get a good start, which is also the first tour victory won by the Russians after becoming his father. Medvedev met with local star Tim in the second round, and this heavy showdown was undoubtedly eye-catching. In the past five matches between the two, Tim has the upper hand with 3 wins and 2 losses. The last match between the two is back to the year-end finals in 2020, when Medvedev won the final.
In two men's singles matches, Canadian star Shapovalov defeated the US No. 1 6-1/4-6/6-3 Fritz to advance to the quarterfinals, which also cast a haze on Fritz's prospect of entering the year-end finals. Shapovalov's opponent in the quarterfinals was British player Evans, who eliminated Kachanov 6-2.
(text, edit/faye Wong, picture/visual China)
