Jódar and Davidovich replace Alcaraz: this is how the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters remain

The eight survivors of the Shanghai Masters 1000 ATP will compete in the quarterfinals between this Thursday and Friday. It is not Carlos Alcaraz, but Rafa Jodar and Alexander Davidovich They make Spanish tennis the majority in a round in which they find the future No. 1, the German Alexander Zverevand a former tournament champion, Daniil Medvedev.

Alexander Davidovich, who came back from a match point down on his way, recent winner of the Chengdu ATP, will open the quarterfinal tie facing the surprise of the event, the Frenchman Arthur Gea.

It will be this Thursday at 08:30 in the Spanish morning. Later, at noon, the duel between Zverev, whose best result in this competition is the 2019 final, and the Australian Alex de Minaur, who is fighting to be in the ATP Finals, to continue adding ranking points.

On the same mission there is Rafa Jodar, who has headed towards Turin again, to the event of the best eight, which has left the Italian a little more open Jannik Sinner by unsubscribing when he was already classified.

Jódar will play his quarterfinal duel in Friday’s session, reserved for the lower part of the draw, from which he fell Carlos Alcaraz, although his executioner, the Belgian Zizou Bergsdid not make it past the round of 16, losing to the American Tommy Paul 7-6 (5) and 6-4.

Jódar came back from the Dutchman Botic Van de Zandschulp, 6-7 (4), 6-4 and 6-2, and will meet the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who eliminated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 5-2 and retreat.

The best of the Jódar-Ruud, an unprecedented duel, will meet in the semifinals, on Saturday, with the winner of the clash between the Russian Daniil Medvedev and Tommy Paul. The Muscovite beat the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4 and 7-5. He feels comfortable in China. Champion in Hangzhou, semi-finalist in Beijing, after being disqualified against Novak Djokovic and on the path to retaining the crown in Shanghai, where he dominated in 2019.

Quarter finals

Thursday the 15th

(not before 08:30 hours)

Arthur Gea (Fra)-Alejandro Davidovich (Esp/25)

(not before 12:00 p.m.)

Alexander Zverev (Ale/1)-Alex de Minaur (Aus/9)

Friday the 16th

(schedules to be defined)

Rafa Jódar (Esp/12)-Casper Ruud (Nor/20)

Daniil Medvedev (Rus/5)-Tommy Paul (USA/15)

The Shanghai Masters 1000 ATP runs until this Sunday, with the final scheduled for 4:30 p.m. local time, half past ten in the Spanish morning. The semifinals, on Saturday, are scheduled from 10:30. In Spain it can be seen on television on Movistar, also by streaming on the TennisTV platform.