Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic and unseeded Jakub Mensik will meet in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters tournament.
Djokovic has won only one title this year — a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris, held on clay. He is ranked fourth in the world rankings and seeks to increase his chances of reaching the finals of the tournament by winning this meeting. At the tournament, he successfully beat Alex Mikkelsen, Flavio Kobolli and Roman Safiullin without losing a single set.
Mensik, who rose to a record 51st place in the live ranking, had a difficult path to the quarterfinals, brilliantly defeating his rivals, including sixth seed Andrei Rublev and tenth Grigor Dimitrov. He had one final on hard courts this year — in Doha.
The forecast for the match assumes that more than 19.5 games will be played, taking into account the level of the players and the peculiarities of their current form.