A week ago, when Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner started their campaigns in Tokyo and Beijing, I wrote that one of the benefits of having a tour led by young players again is that they play full schedules. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean they can’t get hurt. While Alcaraz went on to win in Tokyo, he injured his ankle along the way, and made a last-minute withdrawal from the bigger event in Shanghai.
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Where does that leave the penultimate Masters 1000 of 2025, which runs through next Sunday? It still has 96 players. It still has the vast majority of the Top 50. It still has Jannik Sinner. And it still has Novak Djokovic, a not-so-young player who plays about as full a schedule as possible for a 38-year-old.
Here are three things to watch for over the next 10 days in Shanghai.