Daniil Medvedev has won his first match since being disqualified at the China Open for hitting a spectator in the eye with a ball he had struck into the stands.
Medvedev beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on Saturday at the Shanghai Masters, an ATP 1000 event. The win gives Medvedev a 10-2 career edge over Struff.
Disqualification and Penalty
Medvedev was disqualified during his semi-final defeat to Novak Djokovic on Monday in Beijing after the incident with the spectator. He apologised afterwards, describing it as an accident.
The disqualification cost him US$285,000 in prize money, the amount he would have earned for reaching the semi-finals in Beijing.
Shanghai Draw
It was the fifth-seeded Medvedev’s first match since the disqualification. In the 96-player Shanghai field, the top 32 seeds receive first-round byes.
Elsewhere in early second-round action on Saturday, fourth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5.
Second seed Carlos Alcaraz, who won last week’s Japan Open, was scheduled to face Juan Manuel Cerundolo in a night match in Shanghai.
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner withdrew from the Shanghai event this week after announcing he would take the rest of 2026 off because of a right knee injury.