Kyrgios fined $16500 for behavior at Shanghai Masters

World number one Novak Djokovic said he hadn’t made any plans to keep Boris Becker as a coach next year as they appeared headed for a split on Thursday.

Djokovic, a three-time victor in Shanghai, next plays Roberto Bautista Agut in the semifinals.

Murray continued his momentum into the second set, breaking world number 16 Pouille in the first game to open up a 3-1 advantage.

“It was a little surprised to play like this (this well) this week”, Tsonga said.

He explained his behaviour by saying he was “physically and mentally tired” after playing “a lot of matches in a row”.

“Not many great things are spoken about him lately”, said the Serb.

At a news conference following the match on Wednesday, Nadal said: “I need to recover the forehand”. Djokovic will now play Spain’s Roberto Bautista in the semi-finals, who defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-4 in the last eight-match. “I don’t think I have dropped my level at all”. But he also had some downtime. “I’m really, really happy and glad now that I did that”. I was using it to just forget about my mistake, previous mistake.

Linda Pearce is a guest of the Shanghai Rolex Masters.

Sixth-seeded Gael Monfils was knocked out of the tournament, too.

Murray powered past Goffin in one hour 35 minutes with a relentless showing that left the Belgian with precious few opportunities for control.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Misha Zverev of Germany in the men’s singles quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center in Shanghai, China, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. He saved two match points in the tiebreaker.

“He’s been doing well. you’ve got to give him credit for that. It’s been a couple of years”.

Kyrgios, who has risen to a career-high in the rankings, defended his exchange with angry spectators.

“I’m happy about being in the semi-finals”.

His opponent, Mischa Zverev, who is the older brother of rising tennis sensation Alexander Zverev, has not had a very successful time of late.

At Beijing: WTA Tianjin Open: Danka Kovinic bt Monica Puig 6-4, 6-3; Alison Riske bt Han Xinyun 6-3, 6-3; Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3); Peng Shuai w/o Agnieszka Radwanska.

Djokovic looked short of motivation as he faced the threat of slumping to what would have been a stunning loss to world number 110 Zverev. Murray, on the bottom half of the draw, will face Goffin.