Videos - This week

World No. 19 Elise Mertens eliminated No. 9 Iga Swiatek 7-6(7), 6-3 on hard court in a 1h49min China Open quarter-final, extending a four-match winning run and reaching the last four after defeating Coco Gauff and Jelena Ostapenko.

World No. 2 Alexander Zverev outlasted No. 22 Alexander Bublik 7/6⁶, 4/6, 7/6¹ on hard court in 2h37min, converting a high-pressure Shanghai Masters eighth-final into another test of his tiebreak strength and tournament consistency.

World No. 6 Daniil Medvedev recovered from a set down to beat No. 59 Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on hard court in 1h51min, strengthening his recent Shanghai form and reversing Struff’s grass-court advantage from July.

Arthur Géa continued his outstanding hard-court run by defeating world No. 15 Jakub Menšík 7-6(4), 6-4 in the Shanghai Masters eighth-final. The world No. 56 spent 1h36min securing another major win over a higher-ranked opponent.

Ranked 26th, Leylah Fernandez overcame No. 28 Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Wuhan’s hard courts after 2 hours and 26 minutes, extending a strong recent run against top-ranked opposition.

Rafael Jódar, ranked 13th, overcame 16th-ranked Jiří Lehečka 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 on hard court in 2 hours 41 minutes. The Round 3 victory strengthened Jódar’s recent record against Lehečka and continued his progress in Shanghai.

Jasmine Paolini, ranked 33rd, defeated No. 30 Sara Bejlek 6-3, 6-4 on the Wuhan Open hard court. The 1-hour, 41-minute result gives Paolini a significant early win against a higher-ranked opponent and strengthens her recent hard-court momentum.

Maria Sakkari, ranked 35th, overturned a ranking gap against No. 10 Marta Kostyuk on the Wuhan Open hard court, recovering from a first-set loss to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in 2 hours and 5 minutes.

World No. 11 Arthur Fils advanced past No. 187 Pavel Kotov in Round 2 of the Rolex Shanghai Masters, winning 6-3, 6-4 on hard court in 76 minutes and extending his strong recent record against ranked opposition.

World No. 49 Janice Tjen advanced through the Wuhan Open first round with a 6-3, 6-1 hard-court win over Japan’s Aoi Ito, ranked 361st. The result underlined Tjen’s greater consistency against a qualifier after a demanding recent run.