Shanghai
De Minaur, Auger-Aliassime cruise in Shanghai, enhance Turin hopes
Borges ends house favorite Shang’s run
October 06, 2025
Rolex Shanghai Masters
Alex de Minaur overcomes Kamil Majchrzak on Monday to achieve the fourth spherical in Shanghai.
By Andy West
With a possible spot on the Nitto ATP Finals looming within the background, Alex de Minaur and Felix Auger-Aliassime are displaying no signal of taking their eyes off the ball on the Rolex Shanghai Masters.
The duo on Monday every maintained their respective quick begins to the Chinese language ATP Masters 1000 with a commanding straight-sets third-round win. The seventh-seeded De Minaur eased previous Kamil Majchrzak 6-1, 7-5 in humid situations, whereas twelfth seed Auger-Aliassime sank Jesper de Jong 6-4, 7-5. Neither De Minaur nor Auger-Aliassime has dropped a set throughout their opening two rounds in Shanghai.
Mr. Constant 😎@alexdeminaur books his seventh ATP Masters 1000 fourth spherical of the season with a 6-1 7-5 win over Majchrzak.@SH_RolexMasters | #RolexShanghaiMasters pic.twitter.com/uWgdE8yGe5
— ATP Tour (@atptour) October 6, 2025
The 26-year-old De Minaur broke Majchrzak’s serve 5 occasions en path to his Tour-leading thirty sixth win on laborious courts in 2025, with two of these breaks coming after he had dropped serve himself to fall 3-4 behind within the second set. The Australian is seventh within the PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin and stays nicely positioned to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for the second consecutive 12 months.
“I got here into this week figuring out how powerful the situations have been going to be,” mentioned De Minaur after his one-hour, 27-minute victory. “So the mindset in the end is surviving, discovering methods, and preparing for battles each time you step out on the courtroom. There isn’t a such factor as straightforward matches, particularly in these situations, so I’m glad I used to be capable of compose myself within the second set, get the break again, and end it off in two. If we had gone into a 3rd, it might have been very bodily.”
De Minaur will tackle Nuno Borges within the fourth spherical. The Portuguese ended house #NextGenATP star Shang Juncheng’s run with a 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3 triumph to achieve the fourth spherical at a Masters 1000 for the fourth time in his profession, and for the second time on laborious courts after Montreal 2024. Ought to De Minaur defeat Borges within the pair’s maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head conflict, he’ll hit 50 tour-level wins in a single season for the primary time.
Auger-Aliassime additionally loved a superb day on return in China, the place he transformed three of 4 break factors he earned towards De Jong. The Canadian, who was helped to his toes by a ball child after slipping within the second set, additionally gained 77 per cent (30/39) of factors behind his first serve, in keeping with Infosys ATP Stats.
Now 10-2 because the begin of August (with each defeats in that tally coming by the hands of Jannik Sinner), Auger-Aliassime will face eighth seed Lorenzo Musetti or twenty sixth seed Luciano Darderi for a quarter-final spot. The 25-year-old is tenth within the Reside Race, simply 580 factors behind eighth-placed Musetti, as he seeks a Nitto ATP Finals return following his 2022 debut.
