{"id":170992,"date":"2026-10-08T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170992"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:04:51","slug":"novak-to-compete-at-shanghai-masters-here-is-his-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-to-compete-at-shanghai-masters-here-is-his-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Masters: Novak to meet Hurkacz in round two"},"content":{"rendered":"

After competing in Beijing, Novak has arrived in Shanghai, where the penultimate Masters 1000 event of the season is taking place from October 7 to October 18.<\/p>\n

The organisers of the Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> released the main-draw matchups on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

A total of 96 players are in the draw, with the top 32 seeds receiving byes in the opening round.<\/p>\n

Novak, a four-time Shanghai champion (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018), is seeded no.10 and will begin his campaign in the second round against Hubert Hurkacz (POL, H2H 8-0).
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Novak\u2019s possible opponents in the later rounds are:<\/p>\n

Third round:<\/strong> Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 24)
\nFourth round:<\/strong> Frances Tiafoe (FRA, 7), Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP, 25)
\nQuarter-final:<\/strong> Ben Shelton (USA, 3), Jakub Mensik (CZE, 13), Francisco Cerundolo (ARG, 21)
\nSemi-final:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 1), Flavio Cobolli (ITA, 6), Alex de Minaur (AUS, 9)…<\/p>\n

Final:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 2), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 4), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 5), Arthur Fils (FRA, 8)…<\/p>\n

In his most recent appearance in Shanghai, in 2025, Novak reached the semi-finals, where he was stopped by Valentin Vacherot (MCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After competing in Beijing, Novak has arrived in Shanghai, where the penultimate Masters 1000 event of the season is taking place from October 7 to October 18. Four-time Shanghai champion (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018), is seeded no.10 and will begin his campaign in the second round against Hubert Hurkacz (POL, H2H 8-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013390,101012131,118,101013328,101013430,101011765],"class_list":["post-170992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en-2","tag-china","tag-draw","tag-masters-en-2","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en-2","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170992"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171071,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170992\/revisions\/171071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}