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The top three seeds are in action in Chengdu – including No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov, who got carried over from Friday. No. 1 seed in Alexander Zverev; No. 2 is Lorenzo Musetti. All moved on.

In Zhuhai, Andy Murray looked for a quarterfinal berth but had a tough potential tussle with Russia’s Aslan Karatsev, and bowed out.

No. 2 Cameron Norrie and No. 4 seed Sebastian Korda played their first matches, after byes in the first round. And did get through.

(Chengdu and Zhuhai are both 12 hours ahead of EDT)

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Zhuhai Championships
Location: Zhuhai, China
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Sept. 20 – 26, 2023
Prize money: $1,057,295
Draws: S28 – D16

Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

Aslan Karatsev (RUS) def. [7] Andy Murray (GBR) 46 63 62

[2] Cameron Norrie (GBR) def. [Q] Marc Polmans (AUS) 60 63
[4] Sebastian Korda (USA) def. Alexandre Muller (FRA) 61 26 63
[5] Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) def. Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) 62 63

Doubles, quarterfinals

[1] Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen (BEL) def. Evan King / Reese Stalder (USA) 75 76 (5)
[3] Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow (USA) def. Anirudh Chandrasekar /  Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 64 76 (4)

Doubles, first round

[2] Jamie Murray (GBR) / Michael Venus (NZL) def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) / Cristian Garin (CHI) 64 64

Sebastian Korda / Mackenzie McDonald (USA) def. [PR] N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Andre Begemann (GER) 76 (3) 63

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Chengdu Open
Location: Chengdu, China
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Sept. 20 – 26, 2023
Prize money: $1,261,555
Draws: S28 – D16

Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

[1] Alexander Zverev (GER) def. [Q] Pavel Kotov (RUS) 76 (5) 46 61
[2] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) def. [Q] Philip Sekulic (AUS) 76 (3) 67 (4) 60
[3] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) def. Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) 63 64
[7] Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) def. Corentin Moutet (FRA) 62 64

Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) def. Marcos Giron (USA) 76 (2) 64

Doubles, quarterfinals

[1] Sadio Doumbia / Fabien Reboul (FRA) def John Peers (AUS) / Roman Safiullin (RUS) 63 76 (1)

Nuno Borges (POR) / Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) def. Nicolas Barrientos (COL) / Andre Goransson) (SWE) 63 46 [10-6]

Doubles, first round

Marcos Giron (USA) / Rubin Statham (NZL) def. [3] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) / Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 57 43 retd

[2] Francisco Cabral (POR) / Rafael Matos (BRA) def. Christopher O’Connell / Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) 40 retd

Max Purcell / Jordan Thompson  (AUS) def. Ariel Behar (URU) / Patrik Niklas-Salminen (FIN) 61 6

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