Hubert Hurkacz saved a match level to outlast Andrey Rublev 6-3 3-6 7-6 (10-8) to win the Shanghai Masters title and enhance his probabilities of taking part in at subsequent month’s ATP Finals.
The Sixteenth-seeded Hurkacz survived the match level at 6-5 within the third-set tie-break earlier than changing his fourth match level after two hours and 9 minutes.
Hurkacz fired 21 aces and received 81 p.c of his first-service factors within the last, during which every participant managed only one break.
Fifth-seed Rublev, who had not dropped a set in Shanghai earlier than the ultimate, had 13 aces.
Hurkacz claimed his seventh profession title in his eighth last and rose to eleventh place on this 12 months’s rankings, with the highest eight qualifying for the season-ender in Turin.
He is simply 335 factors behind Holger Rune in eighth, with eight tournaments left earlier than the finals.
Rublev is fifth on the listing, behind Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner who’ve secured their place in Turin.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
