Jacquet beats Zhang in two sets in Shanghai qualifying

Frenchman Kyrian Jacquet defeated Chinese player Tianhui Zhang 6-2, 7-6 in the first round of qualifying for the Rolex Shanghai Masters. It is an ATP 1000 event, played on hard court. According to api.tennis, the match ended 2:0 in sets.

Two sets, one edge

Jacquet won the first set 6-2. Zhang put up more resistance in the second: it ended 7-6 in the Frenchman’s favor, and no third set was needed.

According to rank.tennis, Jacquet is ranked 74th, with 768 points. Tianhui Zhang is 790th with 36 points.

The players’ recent matches had gone differently. At the Japan Open, Jacquet beat Holger Rune 6-3, 6-1 and Luciano Darderi 6-3, 7-6, before losing to Jaume Munar 4-6, 2-6 in the quarterfinal. Before Shanghai, Zhang had lost in the first rounds of three tournaments: to Zeng Chun-hsin in Zhangjiagang 4-6, 0-6, to Mikhail Kukushkin in Wuxi 6-7, 3-6, and to Kotov in Shenzhen 4-6, 4-6.