| Shanghai Masters | |
|---|---|
| ATP Tour | |
| Tour | ATP Tour |
| Founded | 2009; 16 years ago (2009) |
| Editions | 14 (2025) |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Venue | Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena |
| Category | ATP Masters 1000 |
| Surface | Hard – outdoors |
| Draw | 96S / 48Q / 32D |
| Prize money | $9,196,000 (2025) |
| Website | rolexshanghaimasters.com |
| Current champions (2025) | |
| Singles |  Valentin Vacherot |
| Doubles |  Kevin KrawietzTim Pütz |
TheShanghai Masters (Chinese:上海大师赛), known as theRolex Shanghai Masters forsponsorship reasons, is an annualtennis tournament for male professional players held inShanghai, China in the month ofOctober. It is played on outdoorhard courts at theQizhong Forest Sports City Arena in theMinhang District. The tournament is part of the nineATP Masters 1000 events on theATP Tour, and is the only one not played in Europe or North America.[1] The tournament was not held from 2020 to 2022 due to Chinese travel restrictions related to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
All matches are played in outdoor conditions at the Qizhong Arena, after the venue held theTennis Masters Cup indoors from 2005 to 2008. The surface ishard court, specificallyDecoTurf.[1][2]
The venue was originally built in 2004 and 2005 to host the Tennis Masters Cup, after the ATP awarded the tournament to Shanghai for a three-year contract (2005–2007), later extended to a fourth year.[3][4] The site was conceived to become the largest tennis venue in Asia, with a 15,000-seats main stadium featuring a retractable roof of eight steel panels representing Shanghai's city flower, themagnolia. As of 2013, the Arena's Grand Stand Court 1 stands in fifth place in thelist of tennis stadiums by capacity, alongsideBeijing'sNational Tennis Stadium (built for the2008 Summer Olympics) andWimbledon's Centre Court.
In preparation of the first edition of the Shanghai Masters, the venue was expanded with several new stadiums and courts constructed by August 2009, including a Grand Stand Court 2, with a seating capacity of 5,000 spectators, and a Grand Stand Court 3, with a seating capacity of 3,000 spectators.[5]
The Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 was established to fulfill the desire of the ATP World Tour and theChinese Tennis Association to develop the market fortennis in China and Asia in general.[6] In 2010 following a sponsorship deal the tournament was renamed the Shanghai Rolex Masters.[7]
In 1996, a professional tournament was held for the first time inShanghai, thelargest city in China. The inauguralShanghai Open was won by RussianAndrei Olhovskiy overMark Knowles ofthe Bahamas.[8] In 2002 the year-end championships, then called theTennis Masters Cup.[9][10] were held in the city. The success of the2002 Tennis Masters Cup, won byWorld No. 1Lleyton Hewitt from Australia, prompted the ATP, which had abandoned the idea of a touring Tennis Masters Cup, to award Shanghai the right to hold the tournament from 2005 to 2007.
While theATP International Series tournament of Shanghai was held two more years in 2003 and 2004 at theShanghai New International Expo Center[disputed –discuss] created for the2002 Tennis Masters Cup, a new facility, theQizhong Forest Sports City Arena, was built to host the year-end championships starting from 2005.[11] The ATP eventually extended the three-year deal to a fourth year in 2006, allowing the Tennis Masters Cup to increase its success in Shanghai.[3][4] Over the four years spent at the Qizhong venue, the tournament sawSwissWorld No. 1Roger Federer reach three finals, losing the first in2005 toArgentineDavid Nalbandian before winning the following two in2006 and2007, andNovak Djokovic ofSerbia taking the2008 title.
In March 2007, the ATP announced that their 2009 rebranding[12] would also be the occasion to use the Qizhong facility and the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup organisation to host anATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in the city, the equivalent of what were then theATP Masters Series.[13] Shanghai was eventually given the October spot in the calendar, previously held by the Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid indoorhard courts event, but was to be held as an outdoor hard surface tournament, thereby reducing the number of indoor Masters events to one, that being the Paris Masters. The newMutua Madrileña Madrid Open moved to outdoorred clay courts during the spring European clay court season. The Tennis Masters Cup became theATP World Tour Finals and moved tothe O2 arena in London, United Kingdom.[12]
Organized by Juss International Sports Event Management Company directed by Jiang Lan, the event was formally presented in a press conference on November 13, 2008, during the season's Tennis Masters Cup tournament, where the choice of the draw sizes, of the surface, and the building ofadditional courts were announced.Rolex, the Swiss watch company, was also revealed as the official sponsor of the event.[14] The promotional campaign for the tournament started in early 2009, with the presentation of its slogan, "Simply The Best",[15] and the event was officially launched on May 5, 2009.[5] Expecting nearly 150,000 spectators during the tournament, the Shanghai Rolex Masters was introduced as the flagship of an Asian swing in the2009 ATP World Tour calendar after the late SeptemberATP World Tour 250Thailand Open ofBangkok andMalaysian Open ofKuala Lumpur, and then early OctoberATP World Tour 500Japan Open Tennis Championships of Tokyo andChina Open of Beijing.[5]
In singles,Novak Djokovic (winner in 2012–13, 2015, and 2018) holds the record for most titles (four). Djokovic andAndy Murray share the records for most consecutive titles (two victories in a row each). In doubles,Marcelo Melo (winner in 2013, 2015, and 2018) holds the record for most titles (three), and no player has collected back-to-back titles yet.
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| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ATP Tour Masters 1000 ↓ | |||
| 2009 |  Nikolay Davydenko(1/1) |  Rafael Nadal | 7–6(7–3), 6–3 |
| 2010 |  Andy Murray(1/3) |  Roger Federer | 6–3, 6–2 |
| 2011 | Andy Murray(2/3) | David Ferrer | 7–5, 6–4 |
| 2012 |  Novak Djokovic(1/4) | Andy Murray | 5–7, 7–6(13–11), 6–3 |
| 2013 | Novak Djokovic(2/4) |  Juan Martín del Potro | 6–1, 3–6, 7–6(7–3) |
| 2014 | Roger Federer(1/2) |  Gilles Simon | 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–2) |
| 2015 | Novak Djokovic(3/4) | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 2016 | Andy Murray(3/3) | Roberto Bautista Agut | 7–6(7–1), 6–1 |
| 2017 | Roger Federer(2/2) | Rafael Nadal | 6–4, 6–3 |
| 2018 | Novak Djokovic(4/4) |  Borna Ćorić | 6–3, 6–4 |
| 2019 | Daniil Medvedev(1/1) |  Alexander Zverev | 6–4, 6–1 |
| 2020– 2022 | No competition (due toCOVID-19 pandemic)[16][17] | ||
| 2023 |  Hubert Hurkacz(1/1) |  Andrey Rublev | 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(10–8) |
| 2024 |  Jannik Sinner(1/1) | Novak Djokovic | 7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
| 2025 | Valentin Vacherot(1/1) |  Arthur Rinderknech | 4–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
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Source: Ultimate Tennis Statistics[18]
| Most titles | Novak Djokovic | 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Most finals | 5 | |
| Most consecutive titles | Andy Murray (2010, 2011) | 2 |
| Novak Djokovic (2012, 2013) | ||
| Most consecutive finals | Andy Murray (2010, 2011, 2012) | 3 |
| Most matches played | Novak Djokovic | 50 |
| Most matches won | 43 | |
| Best winning % | 86.00% | |
| Most editions played | Marin Čilić | 12 |
| Most consecutive matches won | Andy Murray | 17 |
| Youngest champion | Jannik Sinner | 23y, 1m, 28d (2024) |
| Oldest champion | Roger Federer | 36y, 2m, 7d (2017) |
Longest final
| Longest singles final match by number of games | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (34 games) | |||||
| Novak Djokovic | 5 | 713 | 6 | ||
| Andy Murray | 7 | 611 | 3 | ||
Shortest finals
| 2010 (17 games) | |||||
| Andy Murray | 6 | 6 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Federer | 3 | 2 | |||
| 2019 (17 games) | |||||
| Daniil Medvedev | 6 | 6 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Zverev | 4 | 1 | |||
Below are the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 1000 | 650 | 400 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's doubles | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | 0 | N/A | ||||
The Rolex Shanghai Masters in Shanghai, China, which this year runs 1-12 October, has announced a prize money total of US $9,193,540 for the 2025 edition. The singles champion will earn US $1,124,380, and the winning doubles team will split US $457,150:[19]
| Edition 2025 | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 56 | Qualifier | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | €946,610 | €516,925 | €282,650 | €154,170 | €82,465 | €44,220 | €24,500 | 0 | 0 | €12,550 | €6,570 |
| Doubles * | €290,410 | €157,760 | €86,660 | €47,810 | €26,275 | €14,350 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Awards and achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year 2009 –2013 | Succeeded by |
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