Matteo Arnaldi beat Australian Bernard Tomic 6-3 6-1 in their round of 128 match at the Rolex Shanghai Masters. The ATP 1000 event is being played on hard courts in Shanghai, with a prize fund of $11.2 million. The win sends the Italian through to the next round. Match statistics are from api.tennis.
Two sets, 6-3 and 6-1
The match was over in two sets. Arnaldi won the first 6-3. The second was even more one-sided: the Italian took it 6-1, with Tomic winning just one game.
According to rank.tennis, Arnaldi is ranked 37th with 1386 points. Tomic is 170th with 328 points. Neither player was seeded at the tournament.
Tomic had to come through qualifying to reach the main draw. In the first round, he beat Terence Atmane (6-3 4-6 5-3), then defeated Timofey Skatov (7-5 6-4) in the second round. Arnaldi played at the Japan Open before Shanghai. There, he beat Rei Sakamoto (2-6 6-4 6-4), then lost to Carlos Alcaraz (6-7 1-6). Earlier, he lost to James Duckworth (7-5 3-6 2-6 6-7) in the first round of the US Open.