Shanghai Masters: Rohan Bopanna-Denis Shapovalov exit men's doubles

India tennis men's doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna and his doubles partner Denis Shapovalov's Shanghai Masters journey came to an early end after the pair lost their men's doubles Round of 16 match in the tournament. The unseeded pair lost their match against second seed pair of Marcelo Mello of Brazil and Lukasz Kubot of Poland. The Indo-Canadian pair put up a strong show against their higher-ranked opponent before going down in three sets 4-6,6-3,7-10.

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While Bopanna and Shapovalov served seven aces, they committed eight double faults in the match which came them to haunt in the final stages. Melo and Kubot fired two aces and committed three double fault in the match.

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Earlier the unseeded pair, who are playing their eighth tournament together this year, registered a 6-1, 6-4 win over Khachanov and Rublev in the first round.

After the match, Bopanna also took to Instagram to share a video of his play from the match where he returned from the baseline and then ran crosscourt towards the net to volley and win the point, all on his own.

He captioned the video as "Once in a while when the legs feel like 20 again."

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Shanghai Masters: Djokovic and Federer through to quarterfinals

Top seed Novak Djokovic and second seed Roger Federer easily made their way into the quarterfinal round with a resounding win over their opponents in their respective second-round clash. Djokovic dispatched his American opponent John Isner 7-5, 6-3 while Federer defeated Belgian David Goffin 7-6,6-4 to make his way into the next round.

Djokovic who noted that he had been nursing a shoulder injury heading into the tournament, showed no sign of a struggle with fitness as he wrapped up a 350th ATP 1000 career win with the minimum of fuss. World No 3 Federer had to use all of his experience to come through the stern test from Goffin and reach the quarter-finals. 

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Federer, who won the Shanghai title in 2014 and 2017, will take on the winner of German fifth seed Alexander Zverev and Russian Andrey Rublev, while Djokovic faces Greek sixth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the last eight.