Overview

• Alex de Minaur beat Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2 to make his first Shanghai Masters quarter-final in a one-hour, 47-minute match.
• He became the third player to reach 50 tour-level wins in 2025, joining Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz, and leads the Tour in hard-court victories.
• De Minaur struck 19 winners against just 10 unforced errors while saving all three break points he faced.
• His next opponent will be either Daniil Medvedev or Learner Tien, with Tien holding a 2-0 head-to-head this season and Medvedev having retired against Tien in Beijing last week.
• He sits seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin and could climb further with a deep run, while betting previews had rated him a strong favorite over Borges and flagged Tien +3.5 games versus Medvedev.