New record in Shanghai beats countryman Wawrinka and make sure the 300 th week the top ATP. Tsonga exceeds for the first time in 2012 the 3rd round of a Masters 1000: beat Baghdatis, Berdych is. Well Nole: double 6-3 against Feliciano Lopez. Positive debut for the Scot: 6-2 6-2 to Dolgopolov. In Osaka out Zheng, seeded number 2. Beating with an exhausting 4-6 7-6 (4) 6-0 Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the Shanghai Masters 1000, Roger Federer ensures that you keep ahead of the world even at the end of this tournament, whatever its conclusion. Monday the Swiss will begin the week number 300 at the top of world tennis. A record that was already that since July, but the round figure makes it even more impressive. It is not over. Federer this year has the opportunity to match - this time only partially - another record of his youth idol, Pete Sampras: not close to the 2012 number 1, it would be for him the sixth season closed by the first player in the world , even if not consecutive (as instead managed to Sampras). Competition is tougher than ever, since Novak Djokovic remains the favorite for the number one at the end of the season.Waiting to better understand how close the year the Fab Four, in Shanghai the first big qualified for the quarter was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: French, seeded fifth, arrives for the first time this season in the top eight of a Masters 1000. To achieve struggled more than expected losing service immediately, unless immediately recover the break and then close the 6-2 thanks to 12 unforced errors Baghdatis. In the second set the Cypriot causing problems Tsonga played better, but the tiebreak won the day the Alps.Friday Tsonga will face Tomas Berdych: czech suffered against Querrey won the third set (6-2 6-7 6-4). Cilic is also due to arrive in the third set to overcome the obstacle Verdasco: Spanish won the first set 6-4, then collapsed with a 6-1 6-4 Croatian secured the match comeback. No problem for Novak Djokovic: The Serbian defeated Feliciano Lopez 6-3 with a double by winning the fiftieth victory in 51 matches played against an opponent outside the top ten. Even less suffered the onset of Murray, who had passed the first two rounds without playing: the Scottish places a very high percentage of the first (73%) and yields Dolgopolov 6-2 6-2 in 57 minutes. The quarter Olympian will face Stepanek, who beat Isner in three sets (6-4 6-7 6-3). Last to qualify, the German Tommy Haas, the protagonist of a fast Tipsarevic 6-2 6-1 on an off. The second-seeded Zheng Jie, out in the second round in Osaka (indoor tournament WTA International from $ 220,000). The Chinese number 24 in the rankings, sold to the French Pauline Parmentier 6-3 6-4, in 73 th place in the ranking. Next, the young Heather Watson, 20 years old got the better of Spain's Medina Garrigues in three sets, losing the first in the tiebreak 6-2 6-3 and closing the later ones.Exceed the turn even the South African Scheepers beats noticeably Lucic in straight sets (6-2 6-2) and Laura Robson 6-4 with a double that gets rid of the Chinese Yi-Miao Zhou.
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