There was upset at the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday evening as Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain stunned defending champion Roger Federer 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 and knocked him out of the competition. Despite the crowd being behind Federer, the Swiss star just couldn't scrape a win together.
Speaking after the match, Federer said Ramos played well.
"He did a good job, you could see he's been in the groove and it's just unfortunate and disappointing. "
Ramos who is ranked 70th on the ATP world rankings says the win is a big achievement for him.
"I'm really happy to beat Roger Federer, it's my first top ten win. During the match after the second set, I thought it will be like always, I will lose. But I played really good. I thought I was really solid with the serve in the third match. It's the most important victory for me. "
There was also upset for Chinese pair Wu Di and Zhang Ze who crashed out in the doubles to David Goffin and Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-3.
In other singles action from Tuesday, Canada's Milos Raonic beat Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci 7-6 (6-5) 7-6 (7-2) to reach the next round of the competition.
His fellow Canadian Vasek Pospisil is also through after downing Simone Bolelli 6-3,6-4.
South African Kevin Anderson beat Germany's Tommy Haas 6-3, 7-5.
And France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat the Dominican Republic's Victor Estrella Burgos 6-3, 6-2.
Later on today, Kei Nishikori, Andy Murray , Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will play their opening matches of this year's competition.
For CRI, I'm Sophie Williams in Shanghai.
