High seed Carlos Alcaraz overcame the climate to advance into the third spherical on the Shanghai Masters.
The Spaniard’s match towards Gregoire Barrere of France was performed beneath the roof after rain triggered play to be suspended in China.
However he cruised via 6-2 7-5 towards the world quantity 73.
Britain’s Cameron Norrie was one of many gamers affected when play was referred to as off for the day due to persistent heavy rain.
Norrie was 3-2 up within the deciding set towards American JJ Wolf having misplaced the primary set 6-3 earlier than taking the second 7-5.
Fellow Briton Dan Evans was unable to get on to court docket for his scheduled match towards Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan.
Elsewhere, second seed Daniil Medvedev and fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas additionally superior to the final 32.
Russian Medvedev was a 6-3 6-3 winner over Chile’s Cristian Garin whereas Greece’s Tsitsipas defeated Australian qualifier Rinky Hijikata 6-4 6-2.
And Italian sixth seed Jannik Sinner joined them within the subsequent spherical after a 7-6 (9-7) 6-2 victory over American Marcos Giron.
