Quite a day in Chengdu, four of the top five seeds crashed out of the tournament and only fourth seed Dimitrov managed to advance to the quarter-finals. In Zhuhai, top seed Tsitsipas had to retire after two sets against Mannarino.
ATP Chengdu
Round Of 16
Egor Gerasimov d. (1) John Isner 67 76 76
Joao Sousa d. (2) Felix Auger-Aliassime 64 67 64
Pablo Carreno Busta d. (3) Benoit Paire 63 36 63
(4) Grigor Dimitrov d. Daniel Evans 75 75
(L) Lloyd Harris d. (5) Dusan Lajovic 63 63
(8) Denis Shapovalov d. (Q) Bradley Klahn 36 63 76
Alexander Bublik d. Jordan Thompson 64 75
Cristian Garin d. Fernando Verdasco 63 36 63
ATP Zhuhai
Round Of 16
Adrian Mannarino d. (1) Stefanos Tsitsipas 36 75 00 (RET)
(2) Roberto Bautista Agut d. Pablo Andujar 75 75
(4) Borna Coric d. (W) Di Wu 63 63
(7) Alex de Minaur d. Andy Murray 46 62 64
(Q) Damir Dzumhur d. (Q) Soonwoo Kwon 76 62
Andreas Seppi d. (W) Zhizhen Zhang 76 46 76