{"id":171074,"date":"2026-10-09T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=171074"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:48:34","slug":"novak-suffers-early-exit-at-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-suffers-early-exit-at-shanghai-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak suffers early exit at Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rolexshanghaimasters.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shanghai Masters<\/a> campaign came to an end in the second round, as he was defeated by Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 27 minutes, with fatigue following his title-winning run in Beijing seemingly taking its toll on Novak\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz secured his first career victory over Novak in their head-to-head meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Novak missed two break points in the third game of the opening set, after which both players held serve until the closing stages. Serving at 4-5, the Serbian faced pressure in the 10th game and allowed Hurkacz to convert his second break point, handing the Pole the opening set 6-4. Immediately afterwards, Novak turned to his team and said that his right arm and shoulder were trembling and that he did not know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Novak managed to stay with Hurkacz after returning to the court, but the Pole broke serve in the fourth game of the second set and consolidated the break to move 4-1 ahead. It was clear that the Serbian was not feeling well, as reflected in his body language. Hurkacz continued to capitalise on the situation and closed out the set 6-3 to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Novak had reached the semi-finals in Shanghai last year, but was unable to match that result this time around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>His next appearance will come at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/six-kings-slam-tennis-riyadh-season-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Six Kings Slam<\/a> exhibition event in Riyadh, scheduled for October 21-24. It will be Novak\u2019s third consecutive appearance at the prestigious event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak\u2019s Shanghai Masters campaign came to an end in the second round, as he was defeated by Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-3. The match lasted one hour and 27 minutes, with fatigue following his title-winning run in Beijing seemingly taking its toll on Novak\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012131,101013328,101013430,101013283,101011765],"class_list":["post-171074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-china","tag-masters-en-2","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en-2","tag-round-2","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171074","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=171074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171075,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171074\/revisions\/171075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}